The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape lassitude by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens to deafen Bea to the dangers of entangling herself in the lives of her brother's family.
By one of America's great living writers, Foreign Bodies is a truly virtuosic novel. The story of Bea's travails on the continent is a fierce and heartbreaking insight into the curious nature of love: how it can be commanded and abused; earned and cherished; or even lost altogether.
- ISBN10 0547435576
- ISBN13 9780547435572
- Publish Date 1 November 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 255
- Language English