The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity by Daniel Mendelsohn

The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity

Daniel Mendelsohn

224 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging reflective slow-paced

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Hailed 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, The Elusive Embrace is a prof...

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