Books by André Aciman
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review 1: Aciman has become a favorite author. He's good at depicting the foibles of men in relationships. The main character, a doctoral student at Harvard in the 1970s, thinks he can compartmentalize all the people in his life. Toward the end an attack of gallstones packs all his coll...
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review 1: How I loved this book. You have to have patience. It's eight days inside the head of a neurotic narrator as he falls in love with an equally neurotic woman and alternately draws her close and pushes her away because he doesn't believe in the possibility of love. It's very poet...
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review 1: If you love music and sympathize with introspective and intelligent characters who think as much as they act, this book is a gem. I've read critiques that find the characters unrealistic -- too elitist, too thinky, imbuing all sorts of moments with too much significance. All I ...