Out of place: a memoir
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From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and 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 lost Arab world of his early years in Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt. Said writes with great passion and wit about his family and his friends from his birthplace in Jerusalem, schools in Cairo, and summers in the mountains above Beirut, to boarding school and college in the United States, revealing an unimaginable world of rich, colorful characters and exotic eastern landscapes. Underscoring all is the confusion of identity the young Said experienced as he came to terms with the dissonance of being an American citizen, a Christian and a Palestinian, and, ultimately, an outsider. Richly detailed, moving, often profound, Out of Place depicts a young man's coming of age and the genesis of a great modern thinker.
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subject_facet | Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography Palestinian Americans -- United States -- Biography Said, Edward W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Out of place : a memoir | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Out of Place A Memoir Out of place : a memoir / Edward W. Said | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Out of place | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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topic_facet | Biography & Autobiography Intellectuals Multi-Cultural Nonfiction Palestinian Americans Said, Edward W |