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Aciman, Andre : Alibis: Essays On Elsewhere

Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York City, NY, 2011

ISBN 0374102759

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 200 pages. The author's second collection of essays. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Andre Aciman's "Alibis: Essays On Elsewhere". The sequel to "False Papers" (2000). Proustian, luminous reflections in the form of "a series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest" (Publisher's blurb). "Many of these essays begin with a city - New York, Barcelona, Rome - before spiraling into images and ideas that connect with other places and times in Aciman's own well-travelled history. Born in Egypt, raised in a French-speaking Jewish family, his complex identity confronts him with a fundamental distortion that he can make sense of only by the transformative power of art. In a brilliant piece called 'Temporizing', Aciman examines his own propensity for filtering all experiences through the Egypt in his mind. Writing thus becomes 'an interminable restoration project whose purpose is to prevent all contact with the present'. Aciman is the perfect guide through the mysteries of time and place" (The Boston Globe). An absolute "must-have" title for Andre Aciman collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the front free endpaper by Andre Aciman. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Aciman's signature on this copy is one of the most beautiful we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. 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 0374102759.

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