“I didn’t want to consummate their love,” Aciman told me when I visited him at the sparsely decorated but spacious Upper West Side apartment where he has lived with his wife for three decades. Or that maybe he’d go back to the United States. These references were meant to foreshadow that Oliver would drown. As Aciman unspooled the 17-year-old Elio’s inner monologue of desire for the handsome intruder down the hall, he implanted references to the writer Percy Shelley’s 1822 death off the Italian coast. It then mutated again so that the object of obsession became a man: Oliver, a swaggering American grad student on a summer residency. Along the way, it mutated into a tale about a boy lusting after a woman at his family’s villa. Their love story was almost a death story.Īciman’s novel began as a writing exercise about the author’s plans for a visit to Italy. E lio and Oliver, the lovers at the center of André Aciman’s 2007 novel, Call Me by Your Name, and its 2017 Oscar-winning film adaptation, have a claim to enjoying one of the most cherished gay trysts in all of modern fiction.
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That is, until I heard a single word break through the haze as plain and clear as if someone had leaned over and spoke directly into my ear. It was a dream, right? That's what I told myself and it calmed me down. * * * The voices grew louder, more urgent, as if they were running out of time. MacHale launches his eerie new trilogy with a story so packed with chilling suspense, readers will want to sleep with the light on. Number one New York Times bestselling author D. Together with Cooper's beautiful but aloof sister, Sydney, Marshall searches for the truth about his friend while ultimately uncovering a nightmare that is bigger and more frightening than he could ever have imagined. Marshall has no idea why he is being tormented by this forbidding creature, but he is quickly convinced it has something to do with his best friend, Cooper, who has gone missing. He has written, directed and produced many. The pages of a sketchbook-a character Marshall himself created. MacHale is the author of the 1 New York Times bestselling Pendragon series and the Morpheus Road series. That is, until he comes face-to-face with a character who only exists on It begins with mysterious sounds, a fleeting face outside a window, a rogue breeze-all things that can be explained away. back hard-cover slightly loose from spine. Inside fly pages show some mottling but the other pages is pristine & beautifully preserved. THE ART OF FICTION PRESENTATION OF ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE GOLD MEDAL SPEECH FIRST EDITION. Hardback red linen with gold embosses spine & front cover. Keywords: LITERATURE AUTHOR BRITISH RUDYARD KIPLING. 78 on its list of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.Ĭondition. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Kim No. "The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road." The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India. It is set after the 2nd Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the 3rd, probably in the period 1893 to 1898. The novel made the term "Great Game" popular and introduced the theme of great power rivalry and intrigue. The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassels Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by MacMillan in October 1901. Kim is a novel by Nobel prize -winning English author Rudyard Kipling. Hardback, Macmillan, 1st edition book 1901. |