| Record Number |
805558 |
| ISBN |
9780374714772 (Overdrive: electronic bk.) |
| Author |
Aciman, André author. |
| Title |
Enigma variations [electronic resource] / André Aciman. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York, USA : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. |
| Contents note |
Downloadable eBook. |
| Summary Note |
A passionate portrait of loves contradictory power, in five illuminating stories. Andre Aciman, who has been called the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century (New York magazine), has written a novel that chronicles the life of Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout his life as they were in adolescence. |
| Enigma Variations 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. Paul's attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire. 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. |
| Target audience note |
General |
| Subject |
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
| Self-realization -- Fiction |
| Desire (Philosophy) -- Fiction |
| Didactic fiction |
| Electronic books. |
| Internet Site |
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