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Antiquities

Ozick, Cynthia (author.).

Summary: From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that caputres the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings. 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 bigotries that pervade 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. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and with the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion. --

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  • ISBN: 9780593318829
  • ISBN: 059331882X
  • Physical Description: print
    179 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

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General Note:
"This Is A Borzoi Book" -- title page verso.

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Subject:
Boys' schools -- Fiction
Families -- History -- Fiction
Antisemitism -- Fiction
Autobiographical memory -- Fiction
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  • 26 of 26 copies available at Westchester Library System.

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  • 0 current holds with 26 total copies.
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Mount Kisco Public Library FICTION OZICK (Text) 31017100338265 Fiction Available -
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Pound Ridge Library District FIC OZICK (Text) 31026151024526 Fiction Available -
Ruth Keeler Memorial Library F OZICK (Text) 31020150815919 Fiction Available -
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