Antiquities and Other Stories

<p><font>''A strange and compelling new book from one of America''s greatest living authors'' <b><i>Times Literary Supplement<br></i></b><br>''As cunning and rich as anything Ozick''s written'' <b><i>Wall Street Journal<br></i></b><br>''One of our era''s central writers. About a man ensnared by history, <i>Antiquities </i>is 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'' <b><i>The New Yorker<br></i></b><br>''Ozick''s prose urges the breathless reader along, her love of language rolling excitedly through her sentences like an ocean wave'' <b>New York Review of Books</b><br><br><b><i>I remember nothing. I remember everything. I believe everything. I believe nothing.</i></b></font><br><br>In 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 fas