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Alibis : essays on elsewhere / André Aciman.
Van Pelt Library PS3601.C525 A79 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aciman, André.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel.
- Essays.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 200 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
- Summary:
- A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011   Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, Andre 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.
- Contents:
- Lavender
- Intimacy
- My Monet moment
- Temporizing
- Reflections of an uncertain Jew
- A literary pilgrim progresses to the past
- The contrafactual traveler
- Roman hours
- The sea and remembrance
- Place des Vosges
- In Tuscany
- Barcelona
- New York, luminous
- Self-storage
- The buildings themselves have died
- Empty rooms
- Rue delta
- Afterword: parallax.
- ISBN:
- 9780374102753
- 0374102759
- OCLC:
- 706020953
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