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Foreign Bodies
Foreign Bodies
Author: Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick is one of America?s literary treasures. For her sixth novel, she set herself a brilliant challenge: to retell the story of Henry James?s The Ambassadors?the work he considered his best?but as a photographic negative, that is the plot is the same, the meaning is reversed. At the core of the story is Bea Nightingale, a fiftyis...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780547435572
ISBN-10: 0547435576
Publication Date: 11/1/2010
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Bea Nightingale, the main character in this multi-layered novel, lives a quiet life teaching English literature to an obstreperous group of young men until her little-known niece arrives from California. What follows are journeys back and forth to Paris at the behest of Bea's odious brother to learn more about her missing nephew. Bea's relatives and her long-since divorced husband are self-absorbed and oblivious to Bea's good intentions. There is a pervasive sadness to this book of lives wasted.
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