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Foreign Bodies
Cynthia Ozick
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Description for Foreign Bodies
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012, Foreign Bodies is a dazzling and profound exploration of the human face of the central relationship in the last century: that between the old world and the new. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012, Foreign Bodies is a dazzling and profound exploration of the human face of the central relationship in the last century: that between the old world and the new. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 136 x 197 x 20. Weight: 254.
The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape lassitude by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens to deafen Bea to the dangers of entangling herself in the lives of her brother's family.
By one of America's great living writers, Foreign Bodies is a truly virtuosic novel. The story of Bea's travails on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848877368
SKU
V9781848877368
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About Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have won four O. Henry first prizes. She currently lives in New York.
Reviews for Foreign Bodies
'It would be a mistake not to read this wonderful novel'
Sunday Telegraph
'Superb ... the relationship between ingénue raw America and elder, cultivated Europe makes [one] turn the pages, fascinated and absorbed.'
The Times
'Ozick is possessed of a voice distinctly her own... Foreign Bodies is a brilliantly mordant examination of displacement and inheritance'
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Sunday Telegraph
'Superb ... the relationship between ingénue raw America and elder, cultivated Europe makes [one] turn the pages, fascinated and absorbed.'
The Times
'Ozick is possessed of a voice distinctly her own... Foreign Bodies is a brilliantly mordant examination of displacement and inheritance'
... Read more