Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick

Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick

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 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.

'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' * Guardian *

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.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9781848877368
ISBN 10	1848877366
Titel	Foreign Bodies
Autor	Cynthia Ozick
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Atlantic Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2012-04-01
Seitenanzahl	272
Preise	Short-listed for ORANGE PRIZE 2012 (UK)
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
Hinweis	Nicht verfügbar