Foreign Bodies - Couverture rigide

Ozick, Cynthia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0547435576 ISBN 13 : 9780547435572

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Ozick Cynthia

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

For Dictation:There are many reasons to admire Cynthia Ozick's fiction...Dictation shows that Ozick continues to command her usual mastery of voices and tones...you can take Dictation wherever you go. You'll want to, since it'll be hard to stop reading once you start." -- Washington Post Book World

"It's typical Ozick, by which I mean typically splendid: The comic moroseness gaines in power until the comedy has turned inside out, and you're gazing at tragedy." --Bloomberg News

"Cynthia Ozick is double-barreled. She's an inventive and revelatory fiction writer and an exacting, battle-ready critic; an impish writer of conscience and a creative intellectual. In this quartet of long stories, a supple form well-suited to Ozick's wit and insight, she pursues her fascination with opposites and parallels, and she extends her inquiry into how language can be both liberating and oppressive." --- Los Angeles Times Book Review  For Heir to the Glimmering World:"In language aglow with fierce wit and passionate intensity, Ms. Ozick summons up the plight not only of this particular set of wandering souls but of others, past and present, subject to the ravages of time and circumstance, the upheavals of history. Lavish in invention and ideas, yet superbly controlled as a work of narrative art, 'Heir to the Glimmering World' has all the hallmarks of a permanent work of literature." -- Wall Street Journal  " . . . a very good story . . . One of the strengths of this new novel is its portrayal of minor characters . . . They have all the familiar lineaments of the real, in the enduring tradition of moral realism."- USA Today

"Wise, muscular prose . . . Ozick's writing is strong and seductive, infused with wit and a sense of history that never burdens the text but never leaves it either." -- O

For The Din in the Head:

"Gives her readers exactly what they've come to expect . . . an unabashed intellectual hunger, a passion for language, a fierce insistence that writers have the right to explore whatever imaginative terrain their talents and impulses urge them toward. And, of course, Ozick wouldn't be Ozick without an occasional outburst of impatience with fools." -- Seattle Times

"Ozick is our arch defender of the independent rights and powers of literature, and of the novel in particular. . . Open the collection anywhere -- I guarantee it -- and you will feel the bite of her distinctive voice. If you are a reviewer, you will want to quote her." -- Sven Birkerts, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"The passion that fills these essays is invigorating. In our age of irony and commercial pandering, we need writers like Ozick, who have the real beliefs and are willing to put their whole project on the line to defend them." -- Chicago Tribune

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. 

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0547435576
• ISBN 13: 9780547435572
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 272