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Foreign Bodies

by Ozick, Cynthia

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ISBN 10
0547435576
ISBN 13
9780547435572
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Minor shelf wear to binding. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

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
Chaparral Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
SPIROoziFOR
Title
Foreign Bodies
Author
Ozick, Cynthia
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0547435576
ISBN 13
9780547435572
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication
New York City, Ny
Date Published
2010-01-01
Size
6x1x9
X weight
16 oz

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