Foreign Bodies, Cynthia Ozick
Foreign Bodies, Cynthia Ozick
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Foreign Bodies

Author: Cynthia Ozick

Narrator: Tandy Cronyn

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/25/2011


Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize finalist Cynthia Ozick's fiction has been awarded multiple O. Henry Prizes. In Foreign Bodies, Ozick crafts a remarkable retelling of Henry James' The Ambassadors-deftly using its plot, yet boldly infusing the novel with an all new place, time, and meaning. It's 1952, and middle-aged Bea Nightingale reluctantly agrees to fly to Paris to help convince her estranged runaway nephew to return to his family. But Bea's experiences abroad will change her forever.

About Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick is the author of several books and a recipient of the PEN/Nabokov Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for fiction, and a National Book Critics Circle winner for criticism.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian on March 18, 2022

CRITIQUE: Where is the Thrall? This is the least engaging of the three Cynthia Ozick novels that I've read...though it has much to recommend it, and you might still enjoy it more than I did. The first ("The Messiah of Stockholm") had me enthralled from beginning to end. But, with this novel, the th......more

Goodreads review by Beth on November 21, 2012

A friend described this book to me in the following way: "Well, I didn't like it and I didn't get it, but maybe it's just too American." This book IS indeed American in the sense that the main characters are American and the author is America -- and some of it is set in America, although quite a lot......more

Goodreads review by Tim on June 03, 2015

I had a lot of trouble with the book. Ms. Ozick is obsessed with using multiple adjectives and multiple metaphors when she's referring to one thing or one action. It felt overdone for my taste. The writing seemed sophomoric. The characters had almost no nuance. Marvin was all bad. Bea was all doorma......more

Goodreads review by Paul on February 21, 2011

I really wanted to love this book. Cynthia Ozick is an incredibly gifted writer, and Henry James' "The Ambassadors," the explicit inspiration for this book, is one of my all-time favorite novels. Yet despite some beautifully-written passages, it doesn't come off. At times, especially when the main c......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on February 28, 2012

Cynthia Ozick, author of The Shawl and Trust: A Novel, two of my favorite books, has written a gem of a novel in Foreign Bodies. A slithering and taut comedy of errors, this book examines issues of betrayal and trust, literal and emotional exile, regret and rage, Judaism in post-World War II Europe......more