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Alibis

Essays on Elsewhere

André Aciman
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Pages
208
Year
2011
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About

Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André 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.

Related Subjects

  • Essays
  • Literary Collections
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Essays & Travelogues
  • Travel
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Reviews

"Aciman ... has an ability to make the finest, the tiniest and most convincing distinctions between moods, responses, and registers. Everything is watched as it shifts and glitters and then hesitates and maybe is shadowed over ... This really is fiction at its most supremely interesting; every clause and subclause shimmers with a densely observed and carefully rendered invention that seems oddly a
Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books on Call Me by Your Name
"From the acclaimed Egyptian-born author, gorgeous musings on longing and memory fueled by travel... These essays sing with bracing clarity."
Kirkus Reviews on Alibis

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André AcimanAuthor