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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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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. AndrĂ© Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.Â
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Summary: Beautiful and Articulate
Comment: This novel is amazing. There is so much pop fiction out there today plus writers who attempt major projects just to achieve a schools try attempt. Andre Aciman has, with what seems like total ease, produced a literary, intelligent, articulate and beautiful piece of work here. It is the coming of age story of Elio, a very sensitive and intelligent 17 year old who experiences his first true love at his family's Italian Mediterranean home one summer. Every year a scholar resides with the family and he becomes totally mezmerized and awed by Oliver, 24, the latest resident scholar.
The book is told through the eye of Elio and he becomes so real and all he experiences becomes real as well. This novel explores the discovery of, exploration of and reality of love more simply, relevantly, realistically and beautifully than any piece of work I have ever read. Each word hits the reader like a gentle caress. The story builds, drama happens and it is all believable.
The love affair is between two men but this book is not merely a piece of gay fiction. It rises above that. It is a literary work about love and its impact. It is meant for all readers who want to read about pure, open raw emotions and their exploration. Each character, including Elio's parents, is very well develooped. The story line has no flaws and the book has a very satisfying ending. I was very disappointed when I finished this book for it was such a beautiful, enlightening experience. Novels like this are a rare find. The written word can posess a rare power and that it does here. This book is highly recommended for teens but even moreso for adults. All will be able to savor its honesty and pure emotion.
Very highly recommended.
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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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