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Out of Place : A Memoir by Edward W. Said (1999, Hardcover)

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Out of Placeis an extraordinary story of exile, a narrative of many departures, a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this memoir he rediscovers the Arab landscape of his early years--"the many places and people [who] no longer exist . . . Essentially a lost world." Vast changes occurred as Palestine became Israel, Lebanon was transformed by twenty years of civil war, and the colonial Egypt of King Farouk disappeared forever by 1952. Born in Jerusalem in 1935, Said was the only son in a prosperous family of five children. His ferociously demanding father upheld many Victorian values and ideals, and his adoring mother inspired his love of music, theater, and literature. His aunt Nabiha gave him his first sense of what it meant to leave Palestine, something never discussed by the family. Said writes with great passion and wit about his family and his friends--from schools in Cairo and summers in the mountains above Beirut to, as he grew older, camp in Maine, boarding school in Massachusetts, and college at Princeton University. Underscoring all is the confusion of identity as Said had to come to terms with the dissonance of being an American citizen, a Christian and a Palestinian, and, ultimately, an outsider. Out of Placereveals an unimaginable world of rich, colorful characters, of exotic eastern landscapes. Lyrical and beautifully crafted, it is often extremely frank as well as intimate and humorous. Said has exposed a most personal past, letting us observe the people who formed him and who enabled him to triumph as one of the most important intellectuals of our time. Out of Placewon the New Yorker Book Award for nonfiction in 2000.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394587391
ISBN-13
9780394587394
eBay Product ID (ePID)
412883

Product Key Features

Book Title
Out of Place : a Memoir
Author
Edward W. Said
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
24 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
E184.P35s25 1999
Reviews
"Absorbing. . . . An almost Proustian portrait." --The New York Times "Said has turned the writing of a memoir itself into perhaps the most profound type of homecoming a perennial exile can know." --The Village Voice Literary Supplement "Engrossing. . . . [Said has] an almost Proustian feel for smells, sounds, sights, and telling anecdotes." --The New York Review of Books "If autobiography is above all a means of explaining one's self to oneself, thenOut of Place. . . must be seen as a triumph." --The Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition., "Absorbing. . . . An almost Proustian portrait." --The New York Times "Said has turned the writing of a memoir itself into perhaps the most profound type of homecoming a perennial exile can know." --The Village Voice Literary Supplement "Engrossing. . . . [Said has] an almost Proustian feel for smells, sounds, sights, and telling anecdotes." --The New York Review of Books "If autobiography is above all a means of explaining one's self to oneself, then Out of Place . . . must be seen as a triumph." --The Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition.
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-031106
Dewey Decimal
956.9/405/092
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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