False Papers

Aciman, Andre

ISBN 10: 0374299781 / ISBN 13: 9780374299781

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00100569064

Synopsis:

Collects a series of autobiographical essays sharing the author's bittersweet memories of life in Alexandria, Europe, and Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Review: "Over and over in the course of these linked essays Aciman shows himself wanting to be elsewhere . . . You don't need to have lost an Alexandria to understand what he does with place and time and memory. After all, we are all exiles in a way-from our own childhoods, our own pasts, if nothing else. It is that remembered aspect of ourselves, that shadowy other life, that Andre Aciman's new book so piercingly addresses."--Wendy Lesser, "NYTBR"
"The incomplete and unstable state of nostalgia is what Aciman tries to fix in this beautiful memoir. He lives in his mind. But sharing that mind is a rare privilege."--Barbara Fisher, " The Boston Sunday Globe"
"One feels that if Proust had not existed Mr Aciman would have invented him."--Richard Bernstein, " The New York Times"

Over and over in the course of these linked essays Aciman shows himself wanting to be elsewhere . . . You don't need to have lost an Alexandria to understand what he does with place and time and memory. After all, we are all exiles in a way-from our own childhoods, our own pasts, if nothing else. It is that remembered aspect of ourselves, that shadowy other life, that Andre Aciman's new book so piercingly addresses. "Wendy Lesser, NYTBR"

The incomplete and unstable state of nostalgia is what Aciman tries to fix in this beautiful memoir. He lives in his mind. But sharing that mind is a rare privilege. "Barbara Fisher, The Boston Sunday Globe"

One feels that if Proust had not existed Mr Aciman would have invented him. "Richard Bernstein, The New York Times""

"Over and over in the course of these linked essays Aciman shows himself wanting to be elsewhere . . . You don't need to have lost an Alexandria to understand what he does with place and time and memory. After all, we are all exiles in a way-from our own childhoods, our own pasts, if nothing else. It is that remembered aspect of ourselves, that shadowy other life, that Andre Aciman's new book so piercingly addresses." --Wendy Lesser, NYTBR

"The incomplete and unstable state of nostalgia is what Aciman tries to fix in this beautiful memoir. He lives in his mind. But sharing that mind is a rare privilege." --Barbara Fisher, The Boston Sunday Globe

"One feels that if Proust had not existed Mr Aciman would have invented him." --Richard Bernstein, The New York Times

Bibliographic Details

Title: False Papers
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good