The Elusive Embrac: Desire and the Riddle of Identity Tapa dura - 1999

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 1st edition. Boards in dust jacket. Light shelfwear; former owner's name on inside front cover. Very Good. 224pp. In an emotionally charged narrative that weaves together past and present, the personal and the scholarly, a young critic and classicist takes us on a search for the meaning of identity--while showing, through remarkably fresh and accessible readings of such classical Greek and Roman writers as Catullus and Sappho, Ovid and Sophocles, how ancient stories continue to hold truths for us today. The landscapes through which Daniel Mendelsohn takes us: the deceptively quiet streets of the suburb where he grew up, torn between his mathematician father, who sought after scientific truth, and his Orthodox Jewish grandfather, who told "beautiful lies"; the Southern university, steeped in history and secret traditions, where he first experienced seductions both sexual and intellectual; Internet chat rooms and the streets of Chelsea, Manhattan's newest gay ghetto,… Leer más

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Knopf, 1999-05-18. American First. hardcover. Used: Good.