{"product_id":"antiquities-and-other-stories","title":"Antiquities and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A strange and compelling new book from one of America's greatest living authors' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'As cunning and rich as anything Ozick's written' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of our era's central writers. About a man ensnared by history, \u003ci\u003eAntiquities \u003c\/i\u003eis at once a warning against the hazards of nostalgia and an invitation to take a longer view of how we got to where we are' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Ozick's prose urges the breathless reader along, her love of language rolling excitedly through her sentences like an ocean wave' \u003cb\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI remember nothing. I remember everything. I believe everything. I believe nothing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1949, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie returns as a Trustee to the long-defunct boarding school that he attended as a child. There he is preparing a memoir about the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school, about his fascination with the Egyptian archaeological adventures of his distant cousin, about the passions of a boyhood friendship with named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this novella, and the three stories published alongside it, one of our most preeminent writers weaves together myth and mania, history and illusion to capture the shifting meanings of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54258636882264,"sku":"9781474623742","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781474623742_4e7bb5d1-2f30-443c-9d83-f096bf17b933.jpg?v=1764619210","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/antiquities-and-other-stories","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}