Foreign Bodies
by Ozick, Cynthia
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near fine condition
- ISBN 10
- 0547345577
- ISBN 13
- 9780547345574
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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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- Seller
- James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 9012129
- Title
- Foreign Bodies
- Author
- Ozick, Cynthia
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Advanced Reading Copy
- ISBN 10
- 0547345577
- ISBN 13
- 9780547345574
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2010
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