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Author Ozick, Cynthia, author.

Title Antiquities / Cynthia Ozick.

Publisher New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
©2021

ISBN 9780593318829 (hardcover)
059331882X (hardcover)



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 Holland Branch Adult  Fiction    AVAILABLE  ---
 Sanger Branch Adult  Fiction    AVAILABLE  ---

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Edition First edition.
Description 179 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Summary "From one of our most pre eminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past , and how our experience colors those meanings. Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven surviving trustees of the now defunct (for 34 years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with a description 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 history-in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir Finders Petrie (check out his Wikipedia entry!), the source of his interest in antiquity-he reconstructs the story of his encounter from his school days with a younger student named Ben-Zion Elefantin, who seems to belong to a lost ancient Jewish sect. From this seed emerges one of Ozick's most wondrous tales, one that displays her delight in Jamesian irony and the mythical flavor of a Kafka parable, woven into her own distinct voice"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject(S) Schools -- Fiction.
Antisemitism -- Fiction.
Jewish fiction.
Fiction.
ISBN 9780593318829 (hardcover)
059331882X (hardcover)