False Papers
by André Aciman
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In these fourteen essays Andre Aciman, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, though his brief stay in Europe and finally to the home he's made (and half invented) on Manhattan's Upper West Side.Tags
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Pretty good collection of essays on moving, on loss, on memory, on place, and their effect on one another. Some essays were extremely moving and almost articulated exactly my feelings about my own relocations and my attitudes towards them; all were written beautifully. However, I remember feeling tired of these themes by the end of the book. The essays began to feel repetitive. Now, a few days after finishing the book, I lost much of the complexity of feelings I originally had toward the essays and I'm only left with the recollection of its enormously successful writing that slowly began to hammer out its ideas to death toward the end.
Aciman, André > Travel > Egypt/Jews, Egyptian > New York (State) > New York >/Biography/Alexandria (Egypt) > Description and travel/Jews > Egypt > Alexandria > Biography
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A regular contributor to the New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and The New Republic, Andre Aciman was born in Alexandria: raised in Egypt, Italy, and France; and educated at Harvard. He teaches literature at Bard College and lives in Manhattan. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Dedication
- For Susan,
my lodestar, my love - First words
- To those who asked, I said I went back to touch and breathe the past again, to walk in shoes I hadn't worn in years.
- Blurbers
- Fisher, Barbara; Bernstein, Richard; Upchurch, Michael; Reynolds, Susan Salter; Lesser, Wendy; Agovino, Michael J. (show all 8); Tribble, Jon; Bendheim, Kim
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