Call me by your name / André Aciman.

London : Atlantic Books, 2008.

248 pages : 22 cm

BEIN Peter Burton 641: Paperbound with dust jacket. From the Peter Burton Collection.

Lambda Literary Award, 2008

"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' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in Andre Aciman's frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. "Call Me by Your Name" is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable.

English

June 25, 2019

Romance fiction.

Peter Burton Collection (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)