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02448cam a22003491i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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19096102 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20170921104357.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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160516s2016 nyu 000 1 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2016018029 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780802125767 (hardback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN |
9780802190116 (ebook) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
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FlFlSLA |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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f-ua--- |
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n-us-ca |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PS3551.L215 |
| Item number |
A83 2016 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
813/.54 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Alameddine, Rabih. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The angel of history / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Rabih Alameddine. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York, NY : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Atlantic Monthly Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
294 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
""There are many ways to break someone's heart, but Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a new life."-Yiyun Li Following the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by 14 saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut, Sana'a, Stockholm, and San Francisco, Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound, philosophical and hilariously winning story of the war between memory and oblivion we wrestle with every day of our lives. "Rabih Alameddine is one our most daring writers-daring not in the cheap sense of lurid or racy, but as a surgeon, a philosopher, an explorer, or a dancer."-Michael Chabon"--Provided by publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
AIDS (Disease) |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Gay men |
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Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Poets |
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Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Devil |
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Fiction. |
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Death (Personification) |
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Fiction. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Cairo (Egypt) |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type |
Book |
