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Foreign Bodies Main Edition
Author(s): Cynthia Ozick (Author)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2011
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848877358
- ISBN-13: 9781848877351
Book Description
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 Main Edition is a truly virtuosic novel. The story of Bea’s travails on the continent is a fierce and heartbreaking insight into the curious nature of love: how it can be commanded and abused; earned and cherished; or even lost altogether.
Editorial Reviews
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`Thrillingly inventive… She’s a worthy inheritor of Henry James. It has amazing depth… really powerful’ –James Runcie, Radio 4, `Saturday Review’
`I thought it was terrific… [a] beautifully crafted book… riveting sentences… wonderfully textured characters’
–Lisa Appignanesi, Radio 4, `Saturday Review’
‘A superb story about the reversal of world order and identities… the relationship between ing�énue raw America and elder, cultivated Europe.. Makes [one] turn the pages, fascinated and absorbed.’ –The Times
