by Cynthia Ozick · Ediciones Alpha Decay, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9791399056464
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It is 1949, and elderly Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the last seven alumni of the Temple Academy—a boys' school closed for decades—sets out to write a memoir of his years at that aristocratic institution. Conceived as a diary, his writing interweaves the constant distractions of the present with the fluctuations of an increasingly unstable memory, which nevertheless allows him to evoke the subtle antisemitism that marked the school's life and the fascination he felt for his own family's heritage. From this premise emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most singular narratives, in which myth and mania, history and illusion are intertwined in a delicate reflection on loneliness, the fragility of memory, and the labyrinths of the mind.
Cynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
