In her sixth novel, Cynthia Ozick retells the story of Henry Jamesβs The Ambassadors as a photographic negative, retaining the plot but reversing the meaning. Β Foreign Bodies transforms Henry Jamesβs prototype into a brilliant, utterly original, new American classic. At the core of the story is Bea
Foreign Bodies
β Scribed by Edwards, Martin
- Book ID
- 109681191
- Publisher
- Poisoned Pen Press, Inc.
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Series
- British Library Crime Classics 0
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781464209116
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTIN EDWARDS
Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue β but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known only by a small number of experts. This is the first ever collection of classic crime in translation from the golden age of the genre in the 20th century. Many of these stories are exceptionally rare, and several have been translated for the first time to appear in this volume.
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Cynthia Ozick is one of America's literary treasures. For her sixth novel, she set herself a brilliant challenge: to retell the story of Henry James's _The Ambassadors_ --the work he considered his best--but as a photographic negative, that is the plot is the same, the meaning is reversed. At the co