Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
by: Andre Aciman
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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)
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. André Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.
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- Excellent read!
This was the first book by Andre Aciman that I read. I was unfamiliar to his style. I bought it when I saw an ad in THE NEW YORKER and was intrigued by the subject. Yes, male love. But this is not a gay novel although it does tackle the issue of love between males. It is a high standard novel about DESIRE and the conflicts of passion and memory. The last 30 pages of the novel culminate to a very beautiful literary prose that touches all that life is about. Time, loss, nostalgia, inevitability. I ... Read More
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- Teen angst masquerading as prose
I went into this book with very high expectations given its reviews from both accredited literature critics and the amazon community, which has been so helpful in the past. I wanted to like it, I really did. Alas, despite my best efforts, it was not to be.
It's obvious that Aciman is a gifted linguist and that he enjoys writing, but I found this book to be excruciating. Behind his impressive (sometimes to a fault) vocabulary, this book has very little character development and a plot ... Read More
Rating: - one of the most intense, vivid love stories ever told
Andre Aciman's novel, Call Me by Your Name, left me breathless with its evocative, razor-sharp story of one's first love.I cannot find the right words to express how beautiful this book is.
The story takes place in a small town in Italy and centers around the narrator, 17-yr-old Elio, a well-read, sensitive boy on the brink of what comes to be what could possibly be called his greatest revelation - that of a first love, a true love, an all-encompassing love that borders on obsession. ... Read More
Rating: - Call Me By Your Name
Surely one of the most insightful, compassionate books I've ever read about young love and passion.Aciman's ability to describe youthful lusts and cravings goes beyond anything I've ever found.This book had me in tears at the end.
Rating: - Fantastic novel
This book is truly fantastic. It is written by a heterosexual (perhaps bisexual) man, yet he accurately caputures the lust of a teenage boy for a slightly older man.
- Excellent read!This was the first book by Andre Aciman that I read. I was unfamiliar to his style. I bought it when I saw an ad in THE NEW YORKER and was intrigued by the subject. Yes, male love. But this is not a gay novel although it does tackle the issue of love between males. It is a high standard novel about DESIRE and the conflicts of passion and memory. The last 30 pages of the novel culminate to a very beautiful literary prose that touches all that life is about. Time, loss, nostalgia, inevitability. I ... Read More
- Teen angst masquerading as proseI went into this book with very high expectations given its reviews from both accredited literature critics and the amazon community, which has been so helpful in the past. I wanted to like it, I really did. Alas, despite my best efforts, it was not to be.
It's obvious that Aciman is a gifted linguist and that he enjoys writing, but I found this book to be excruciating. Behind his impressive (sometimes to a fault) vocabulary, this book has very little character development and a plot ... Read More
- one of the most intense, vivid love stories ever toldAndre Aciman's novel, Call Me by Your Name, left me breathless with its evocative, razor-sharp story of one's first love.I cannot find the right words to express how beautiful this book is.
The story takes place in a small town in Italy and centers around the narrator, 17-yr-old Elio, a well-read, sensitive boy on the brink of what comes to be what could possibly be called his greatest revelation - that of a first love, a true love, an all-encompassing love that borders on obsession. ... Read More
- Call Me By Your NameSurely one of the most insightful, compassionate books I've ever read about young love and passion.Aciman's ability to describe youthful lusts and cravings goes beyond anything I've ever found.This book had me in tears at the end.
- Fantastic novelThis book is truly fantastic. It is written by a heterosexual (perhaps bisexual) man, yet he accurately caputures the lust of a teenage boy for a slightly older man.
