Alibis Essays on Elsewhere A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation Andr Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time place identity a

A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, Andr Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, ParA Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, Andr Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner, Alibis reminds the reader that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.
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✓ Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere || é PDF Read by ç André Aciman
387 André Aciman
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Title: ✓ Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere || é PDF Read by ç André Aciman
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Andr Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth century literature He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Cond Nast Traveler as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays Aciman received his Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, has taught at Princeton and Bard and is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at The CUNY Graduate Center He is currently chair of the Ph D Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers Institute at the Graduate Center Aciman is the author of the Whiting Award winning memoir Out of Egypt 1995 , an account of his childhood as a Jew growing up in post colonial Egypt Aciman has published two other books False Papers Essays in Exile and Memory 2001 , and a novel Call Me By Your Name 2007 , which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Lambda Literary Award for Men s Fiction 2008 His forthcoming novel Eight White Nights FSG will be published on February 14, 2010