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Foreign Bodies

by Ozick, Cynthia

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9781848877351
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London: Atlantic Books, 2011. 255pp; fore-edge and top and bottom edges tanned; b/w pictorial d/j, white title to spine.. 1st UK Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Synopsis

In her sixth novel, Cynthia Ozick retells the story of Henry James’s The Ambassadors as a photographic negative, retaining the plot but reversing the meaning.   Foreign Bodies transforms Henry James’s prototype into a brilliant, utterly original, new American classic. At the core of the story is Bea Nightingale, a fiftyish divorced schoolteacher whose life has been on hold during the many years since her brief marriage. When her estranged, difficult brother asks her to leave New York for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows, she becomes entangled in the lives of her brother’s family and even, after so long, her ex-husband. Every one of them is irrevocably changed by the events of just a few months in that fateful year. Traveling from New York to Paris to Hollywood, aiding and abetting her nephew and niece while waging a war of letters with her brother, facing her ex-husband and finally shaking off his lingering sneers from decades past, Bea Nightingale is a newly liberated divorcee who inadvertently wreaks havoc on the very people she tries to help. 

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Foreign Bodies
Author
Ozick, Cynthia
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Edition
1st UK Edition
ISBN 10
1848877358
ISBN 13
9781848877351
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2011
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f

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