The Resource Enigma variations, André Aciman
Enigma variations, André Aciman
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The item Enigma variations, André Aciman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- This is a novel that chronicles the life of Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout his life as they were in adolescence. Whether in southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker; or on a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he'll meet again and again over the years is counterpointed by anonymous encounters with other men; or on a tennis court in Central Park; or on a sidewalk in early spring in New York, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire -- not for just one person's body but, inevitably, for someone else's as well. In charting the most inscrutable corners of desire, Aciman proves to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche, soul, and libido, and a master stylist of contemporary literature. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid in Enigma Variations, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of the very ones who may want only to offer what we crave from them. Behind every step the hero takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love casts its luminous halo. We may not know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and others. But sooner or later we discover who we've always known we were
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Contents
-
- First love
- Spring fever
- Manfred
- Star love
- Abingdon square
- Isbn
- 9780374148430
- Label
- Enigma variations
- Title
- Enigma variations
- Statement of responsibility
- André Aciman
- Title variation
- Enigma variations
- Title variation remainder
- a novel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This is a novel that chronicles the life of Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout his life as they were in adolescence. Whether in southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker; or on a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he'll meet again and again over the years is counterpointed by anonymous encounters with other men; or on a tennis court in Central Park; or on a sidewalk in early spring in New York, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire -- not for just one person's body but, inevitably, for someone else's as well. In charting the most inscrutable corners of desire, Aciman proves to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche, soul, and libido, and a master stylist of contemporary literature. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid in Enigma Variations, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of the very ones who may want only to offer what we crave from them. Behind every step the hero takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love casts its luminous halo. We may not know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and others. But sooner or later we discover who we've always known we were
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10547837
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Aciman, André
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
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- Didactic fiction
- Desire (Philosophy)
- Self-realisation
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Enigma variations, André Aciman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- First love -- Spring fever -- Manfred -- Star love -- Abingdon square
- Control code
- 000057551999
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374148430
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2016020262
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026744325
- System control number
- (OCoLC)946692623
- Label
- Enigma variations, André Aciman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- First love -- Spring fever -- Manfred -- Star love -- Abingdon square
- Control code
- 000057551999
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374148430
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2016020262
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026744325
- System control number
- (OCoLC)946692623
Subject
- trueFirst loves
- trueMen -- Psychology
- trueMen/men relations
- trueMen/women relations
- trueNew York City
- trueSelf-awareness
- Self-realisation -- Fiction
- trueBisexual men
- trueBisexuality
- trueDesire (Philosophy)
- Desire (Philosophy) -- Fiction
- Didactic fiction
- trueItaly
- trueLovers
- trueMemories
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