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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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False Papers : Essays on Exile and Memory (01 Edition)

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In these 14 essays, the author, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria, Egypt as a teenager through his brief stay in Europe, and finally to the home he's made on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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A regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The New Republic, Andre Aciman was born in Alexandria; raised in Egypt, Italy, and France; and educated at Harvard. He teaches literature at Bard and lives in Manhattan.

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9780312420055
Subtitle:
Essays on Exile and Memory
Author:
Aciman, Andre
Publisher:
Picador USA
Subject:
Africa
Subject:
Middle East - Egypt
Subject:
Jews
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Travel
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Essays & Travelogues
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Aciman, Andre - Journeys - Egypt
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Jews, Egyptian - New York (State) -
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Picador USA
Publication Date:
September 2001
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Paperback
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English
Pages:
182
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8.28x5.52x.47 in. .41 lbs.
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