{"product_id":"antiquities-and-other-stories-1","title":"Antiquities and Other Stories","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAntiquities and Other Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCynthia Ozick\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780593312766\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAntiquities\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded 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: \u003ci\u003eThe Coast of New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bloodline of the Alkanas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSin\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Hebrew Sibyl\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Antiquities and Other Stories | Cynthia Ozick | Paperback | 9780593312766 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1663799","offer_id":50784664125698,"sku":"1663799","price":33.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/818aqG1982L_73c2c0de-0f72-49a4-8b54-e5e0bbf03398.jpg?v=1792239649","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/antiquities-and-other-stories-1","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}