Antiquities and Other Stories

Antiquities and Other Stories - Paperback

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Antiquities and Other Stories - Paperback

Antiquities and Other Stories - Paperback

by Cynthia Ozick
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by Cynthia Ozick (Author)

From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings, now alongside four previously uncollected stories

In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island.

Included alongside this wondrous tale, touched by unsettling irony and with the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, are four additional stories in Cynthia Ozick's brilliant, distinctive voice, weaving myth and mania, history and illusion: The Coast of New Zealand, The Bloodline of the Alkanas, Sin, and A Hebrew Sibyl.

Author Biography

CYNTHIA OZICK, a recipient of both the PEN/Nabokov Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle winner for criticism, is the author of Trust, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Shawl, and The Puttermesser Papers. She lives in New York.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: March 01, 2022
ISBN9780593312766
Author Cynthia Ozick
PublisherVintage
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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CYNTHIA OZICK, a recipient of the PEN/Nabokov Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for fiction, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for her essays, is the author of Trust, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Shawl, and The Puttermesser Papers, and many other works of fiction and nonfiction. She lives in New York.

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