Enigma Variations

Andre Aciman

ISBN 10: 0374148430 / ISBN 13: 9780374148430

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017

About this Item

First edition. Near fine book in like dust jacket, now in new removable protective cover. Grey boards, black print on the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hard cover with dust jacket, first edition 2017 (stated), first printing, complete number line. ISBN: 9780374148430, 266 pages. 8vo (5.5" x 8.5").

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Enigma Variations
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374148430
• ISBN 13: 9780374148430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • LGBT

About this title

Synopsis

André Aciman, hailed as a writer of “fiction at its most supremely interesting” (The New York Review of Books), has written a novel that charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park, or on a New York sidewalk in early spring, 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 Enigma Variations, Aciman maps the most inscrutable corners of passion, proving to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, 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 those who may want to offer only what we crave from them. Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later we discover who we’ve always known we were.

About the Author

André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, and Find Me. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.