{"product_id":"foreign-bodies-9780547577494","title":"Foreign Bodies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An absorbing achievement . . . A nimble, entertaining literary homage, but it is also, chillingly, what James would have called 'the real thing.'\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCynthia Ozick is a literary treasure. In her sixth novel, she retraces Henry James's \u003ci\u003eThe Ambassadors\u003c\/i\u003e and delivers a brilliant, utterly new American classic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center 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 travel to Europe to retrieve a nephew she barely knows, she becomes entangled in the lives of his family. Over the course of a few months she travels from New York to Paris to Hollywood, aiding and abetting her nephew and niece while waging a war of letters with her brother, and finally facing her ex-husband to shake off his lingering sneers from decades past. As she inadvertently wreaks havoc in their lives, every one of them is irrevocably changed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Raucous, funny, ferocious, and tragic. A literary master, as James was, Ozick makes all those qualities fit together seamlessly, and with heartbreaking effect.\"--\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Dazzling, even masterful.\"--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOzick, Cynthia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, CYNTHIA OZICK is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in New York.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491816870162,"sku":"9780547577494","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_18f04b6c-cd8a-494f-a7e1-ecd884cb15aa.jpg?v=1730557104","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/foreign-bodies-9780547577494","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}