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Tarfumes.com - Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
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Manufacturer: Picador
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312426781
ISBN: 031242678X
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2008-01-22
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: 2008-01-22
Studio: Picador
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Editorial Reviews:
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year A New York Magazine “Future Canon” Selection A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year One of The Seattle Times’ Michael Upchurch’s Favorite Books of the Year An Amazon Top 100 Editors’ Picks of the Year An Amazon Top 10 Editors’ pick: Debut Fiction (#6) An Amazon Top 10 Editors’ pick: Gay & Lesbian (#1) Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. André Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.
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Summary: Greatly moving and affecting... Lingers with you long after it's done.
Comment: This has quickly climbed to become one of my all-time favorites! I don't recall crying while reading a book before, as I did while reading this. And it's not because it was terribly sad, but because it touched me in places I have long thought have died in me. (I was awfully sad, too, to have it end, perhaps one of the greatest compliments I can give a book.)
This book is what I dreamed of encapsulating back when I still dreamt... And for making me realize that I can still ache in those ways, I am grateful.
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Summary: straordinario...fantastico!
Comment: I was shocked by how much I loved reading this book. I'm far too lazy to write a proper review (and I doubt I would say anything new anyway), so I'd like just to give it my five stars and recommend it as one of the best in gay fiction. I finished it a few days ago and cannot get it out of my mind.
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Summary: A Must Read!!!
Comment: I read a lot of gay fiction.
I have to tell you that this book, by far, is better than any other gay fiction I've ever read.
I'll admit the Author goes on and on a bit about how beautiful the visitor is, but once you get into the book you realize why he goes on and on.
The last section of the story is what touched me so deeply.
It's a good book, a great read, a great story and well worth your money!
Don't hesitate in buying this one!
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Summary: I'll call you for my money back.
Comment: Andre Aciman's ''Call Me By Your Name'' is funny and intriguing at the very beginning, then gets a preachy-philosopher type of vibe going. Aciman stops at an abandoning, dead halt in the middle of exciting, you know this is the part I've been waiting for, relevant details and includes sometimes two page long irrelevant details. With an immature, disturbing main character and his confusing dreamlover; badly written chemistry between the two, forces sloppy erotic supposed love scenes that tells the readers the main character and his dreamlover shouldn't be together and should put an end to their tempting fatasies that would spare the embarrasement. The book, it would seem to make the reader embarrased even though he or she didn't write this novel.
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Summary: Elegaic prose vividly evokes emotion
Comment: Andre Aciman's Call Me By Your Name is a beautifully-written, elegiac novel about a passionate and all-consuming romance between an American graduate student named Oliver spending 6 weeks on the Italian Riviera, and the 17 year-old son of the Italian family hosting him, named Elio. The story is narrated by Elio from a vantage point later in life. I found myself sharing in Elio's emotions as he related in a stream of consciousness the experience of losing control of his life to love, tentatively pursuing his feelings, negotiating intimacy, and finally consummating the romance, for an all-too-brief time. The emotions are almost too real. Reading the novel is an exquisite combination of pleasure and pain, as the author takes one through the feeling of aching, first love in obsessive yet tender detail. A most enchanting passage was the account of a once-in-a-lifetime evening Oliver and Elio spend together in Rome with a boisterous group they meet at a poetry reading; shortly before Oliver returns to the States.
There are aspects of the novel that leave me disquieted, and the story is tinged with a little of the regret we're left with in Brokeback Mountain, although it's not a tragedy. The ending is beautifully rendered, but not very satisfying. Imagine the ending of Maurice if Scudder hadn't come along to take the hero to a place he didn't get to with Clive. The plot is fairly threadbare (like a Virginia Woolf novel), which can make for dense reading. On balance, I would recommend the book for how vividly it evokes the thought processes of dealing with intense, transfixing love, and on its literary merits. Aciman brilliantly holds a mirror up to nature. But the novel cannot be considered romantic fiction. The ending would not have satisfied EM Forster, but nor would it please those who argue that homosexual attraction is "only a phase."
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