FIND ME - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Andre Aciman - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE

Aciman, Andre

ISBN 10: 0374155011 / ISBN 13: 9780374155018

Published by New York City, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2019, 2019

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 260 pages. Published in 2019. The author's fifth novel. The sequel to Andre Aciman's "Call Me By Your Name" (2007). The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a regular first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Andre Aciman's "Find Me". "Rebound" love, the marital "placebo"/"I really care about you" love, and the elusive Real Thing, true love, described in ecstatic yet elegiac prose, as the only serious American novelist on romantic love of our time could pull it off. Despite its expansive range, it is about the same length (260 pages) as "Call Me By Your Name", quickened even more by substantial dialogue. The novel is in four intertwined set pieces of unequal length, inspired by and patterned after Aciman's beloved Bach and Classical music: "Tempo", the longest section, about Elio's father, who was un-named - and who died - in the original novel, but is resurrected and is known here as Samuel/Sami; "Cadenza", about a more mature yet no less vulnerable Elio, embarked on a new, accelerated romance that also opens him up to his Jewish roots; "Capriccio", about married, domesticated Oliver wrestling with his irrepressible bisexual longings; and a brief, perfect coda, "Da Capo". The theme of each section is The Search, for one's true love, for personal redemption, and for the truth about one's life: I need you to find me, but I also need to find myself. "Da Capo" is demanding because it represents Aciman's attempt to emulate music, the music of Bach no less, as it is written in two contrapuntal voices, Oliver's and Elio's, weaving in and out of each other, without breaks, with no crutch afforded the reader whatsoever, who must read each and every music-like line carefully to follow it. A tour-de-force, it contains Aciman's most thrilling virtuoso-writing ever about the bliss and exalted state of romantic love when, at last, it too is found. If you loved "Call Me By Your Name", whether the novel or its great film adaptation, you have to read "Find Me", which is even more challenging and rewarding. An absolute "must-have" title for Andre Aciman collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Andre Aciman. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as copies available online are. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such title-page signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available have serious faws (because they were read) or are in multiple subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Andre Aciman's "Call Me By Your Name" is regarded as a classic by Colm Toibin. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ANDRE ACIMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374155011.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FIND ME - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Andre Aciman - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE
• Publisher: New York City, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374155011
• ISBN 13: 9780374155018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

A New York Times Bestseller

In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.

No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love.

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.

Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.

Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

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.