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Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies

Author(s): Cynthia Ozick

Location(s): Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1950s

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The book is set among Jewish-Americans in the early 1950’s, the McCarthy years of loyalty oaths.
Bea Nightingale,in her 50s is divorced in NYC where she teaches English and has put her life on hold since her divorce. She has little contact with her Los Angeles based brother, but nevertheless agrees to retrieve his errant son from post war Paris. Inspiration is from Henry James, the Ambassadors.

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