The Resource The elusive embrace : desire and the riddle of identity, Daniel Mendelsohn
The elusive embrace : desire and the riddle of identity, Daniel Mendelsohn
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- Summary
- "Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the "rich conflictedness of things," the double lives all of us lead. Daniel Mendelsohn recalls the deceptively quiet suburb where he grew up, torn between his mathematician father's pursuit of scientific truth and the exquisite lies spun by his Orthodox Jewish grandfather; the streets of manhattan's newest "gay ghetto," where "desire for love" competes with "love of desire;" and the quiet moonlit house where a close friend's small son teaches him the meaning of fatherhood. And, finally, in a neglected Jewish cemetery, the author uncovers a family secret that reveals the universal need for storytelling, for inventing myths of the self. The book that Hilton Als calls "equal to Whitman's 'Song of Myself,'" The Elusive Embrace marks a dazzling literary debut." --
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Vintage books edition.
- Extent
- 209 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375706974
- Label
- The elusive embrace : desire and the riddle of identity
- Title
- The elusive embrace
- Title remainder
- desire and the riddle of identity
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel Mendelsohn
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the "rich conflictedness of things," the double lives all of us lead. Daniel Mendelsohn recalls the deceptively quiet suburb where he grew up, torn between his mathematician father's pursuit of scientific truth and the exquisite lies spun by his Orthodox Jewish grandfather; the streets of manhattan's newest "gay ghetto," where "desire for love" competes with "love of desire;" and the quiet moonlit house where a close friend's small son teaches him the meaning of fatherhood. And, finally, in a neglected Jewish cemetery, the author uncovers a family secret that reveals the universal need for storytelling, for inventing myths of the self. The book that Hilton Als calls "equal to Whitman's 'Song of Myself,'" The Elusive Embrace marks a dazzling literary debut." --
- Assigning source
- From Amazon
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- CCM
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam
- Dewey number
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- 306.7662/089924/092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam
- Gay men
- Jewish gays
- Gays
- Jews
- Gay men
- Gays
- Jewish gays
- Jews
- United States
- Label
- The elusive embrace : desire and the riddle of identity, Daniel Mendelsohn
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1798214
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage books edition.
- Extent
- 209 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375706974
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780375706974
- (OCoLC)44994727
- Label
- The elusive embrace : desire and the riddle of identity, Daniel Mendelsohn
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1798214
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage books edition.
- Extent
- 209 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375706974
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780375706974
- (OCoLC)44994727
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