{"product_id":"elusive-embrace-desire-and-the-riddle-of-identity","title":"Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eElusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDaniel Mendelsohn\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780375706974\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition first Printing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e223\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eHailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, \u003cb\u003eThe Elusive Embrace\u003c\/b\u003e is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the \"rich conflictedness of things,\" the double lives all of us lead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDaniel Mendelsohn recalls the deceptively quiet suburb where he grew up, torn between his mathematician father's pursuit of scientific truth and the exquisite lies spun by his Orthodox Jewish grandfather; the streets of manhattan's newest \"gay ghetto,\" where \"desire for love\" competes with \"love of desire;\" and the quiet moonlit house where a close friend's small son teaches him the meaning of fatherhood. And, finally, in a neglected Jewish cemetery, the author uncovers a family secret that reveals the universal need for storytelling, for inventing myths of the self. The book that Hilton Als calls \"equal to Whitman's 'Song of Myself, '\" \u003cb\u003eThe Elusive Embrace\u003c\/b\u003e marks a dazzling literary debut.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity | Daniel Mendelsohn | Paperback | 9780375706974 | Used: Like New | Memoir 1700371","offer_id":48700545335448,"sku":"1700371","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81YOJWlm38L.jpg?v=1773771782","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/elusive-embrace-desire-and-the-riddle-of-identity","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}