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Call Me by Your Name: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Andre Aciman
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  94 reviews
Sales Rank: 17775
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 031242678X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312426781
ASIN: 031242678X
Publication Date: January 22, 2008
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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. Andre Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.
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 Oh, to be a ripe summer peach in Elio's room... July 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Call Me by Your Name" is my favorite book since I can't remember when. More than a week after reading the last line, images of the Italian seaside and the characters continue to be etched in my mind. I hope they stay with me for a long while, and suspect that they will. I haven't had a book accomplish that feat in years. I agree with the reviews comparing the book somewhat to Catcher in the Rye because Elio's obsessive nature is so effectively captured by Aciman. However, he uses just the right mix of peering into his young character's mind to ground the very compelling coming of age story. And I like that the sometimes graphic gay theme plays second fiddle to the overall work, which is a testament to the masterful skill of the author. Aciman is certainly a gifted story teller, and I eagerly await his next book. As for the summer peach....well that's a surprise. I highly, highly recommend this book.
Exceptionally moving. July 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If only we all could express who we were at 17 with such grace, honesty and lucidity.
"The Course of True Love Never did run Smooth" July 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
The course of true love never did run smooth -
The story of star-crossed lovers runs throughout literature, from Shakespeare's sonnets onward. In "Call me by Your Name," Andre Aciman explores adolescent sexuality through the eyes of a sensitive, 17- year- old Italian boy who develops a crush on a slightly older summer visitor. Elio lives with his father, a university professor, and mother in a villa on the Mediterranean. It is in this languid setting that the romance between the two youths develops over the course of long, hot summer afternoons spent playing tennis, swimming and reading --- Aciman captures the mood perfectly. The sexual tension grows intense, even brutal, as the two explore one another's psyches and physiques. While explicitly homoerotic, it is never pornographic.
Aciman is an academic who specializes in the works of Marcel Proust, whose style he sometimes emulates. Although straight, Aciman perfectly conveys the emotional and physical traits of his gay/bi characters.
It's a shame that more "gay" literature doesn't ring as true as this book by a straight author. Love is still love, whatever its variations and permutations.
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An extraordinary novel July 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book based on all the positive reviews found here and elsewhere on the Web, and I'm glad I did.
It is rare to read something that seems as if the author wrote it just for you. But that's exactly how I feel about "Call Me by Your Name." The writing is exceptionally beautiful and I found myself re-reading pages and pages of text just to capture and absorb all of Aciman's wisdom and insights.
I wish there was something new I could say about the book, but so much has been written in other reviews that my accolades would be duplicative. So I'll just say that this book affected me deeply.
The author has conjured one of the finest novels ever written about love, the choices we make, and how emotions change and endure over time.
 Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? July 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Aciman does a wonderful job in this novel of reconstructing young love in all its brilliant absurdity. The narrator, reflecting on his teenage self from the safety of middle age, slowly (a bit too slowly for my taste) builds the story of his obsession with Olivier, 24 to his 17. It's a realistic description, but it's hard for first love--at least in the unrequited stage--to avoid feeling melodramatic. (Melodrama, after all, is what teenagers are all about.) When the lovers finally come together midway through the book, the text comes alive, with passages of poetic expression that bring tears to the eye. One extended sequence, at a book party in Rome, offers one of the best descriptions I've ever read of how one can fall in love with literature. It's the human romance, however, that remains prominent, and Aciman is a master at showing how first love can blind one to reality: the narrator believes that Olivier is his soul mate, that they are one during their time together--and insofar as he believes that feeling will last, the story is a tragedy as well as a romance, as neither character will ever know this intensity of love again. (And the reader will never eat a peach so innocently again, but that's another story....)Chemistry
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