The Puttermesser Papers

by Ozick, Cynthia

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Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Remainder mark. Dust jacket has one small tear, scratch. Ruth Puttermesser is a female Don Quixote in Manhattan who turns out to be the best mayor New York City ever elected (with the most unusual campaign manager). But paradise found quickly turns to paradise lost. 'This book, with its waves of rapturous invention, presents a saddened vision of the world that yet leaves the reader in a trance of happiness. And with the lingering thought: if only I could write a book this good.' - Carol Shields ISBN: 0679454764

Book summary

An updating of DON QUIXOTE that transforms the mad knight of la Mancha into the first woman mayor of New York. Ruth Puttermesser is a depressed and rather forlorn civil servant in Manhattan who plods through the boring routine of her days at work by daydreaming of a rich and lively future in which she emerges as a successful politician. Through an elaborate sequence of events her fantasies become realities, and she is elected and serves as the most successful mayor the city has ever seen. Her triumphs begin to sour nearly as quickly as they flourished, however, and eventually Ruth begins to see that the relations between success and happiness are more tenuous than she had imagined.