The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity
by Mendelsohn, Daniel
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Daniel Mendelsohn's articles, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, New York magazine, Esquire, and The Paris Review . He has been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing, the George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism, and in 2005 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. In addition to The Elusive Embrace , which in 1999 was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, he is the author of a scholarly study of Greek tragedy, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays . Mr. Mendelsohn, who will assume the Charles Ranlett Flint Chair in Humanities at Bard College in the fall of 2006, lives in New York City and in New Jersey.
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- Blue Vase Books LLC (US)
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- Title
- The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity
- Author
- Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Book Condition
- UsedGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375400958
- ISBN 13
- 9780375400957
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- May 18, 1999
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