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Asa, as I Knew Him - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Susanna Kaysen (Paperback)

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Highlights

  • Dinah Sachs and Asa Thayer have had a love affair, conducted in afternoons stolen from the office of the magazine where they work.
  • About the Author: Susanna Kaysen is also the author of the novel Far Afield and Girl, Interrupted, a memoir.
  • 176 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
  • Series Name: Vintage Contemporaries

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Book Synopsis



Dinah Sachs and Asa Thayer have had a love affair, conducted in afternoons stolen from the office of the magazine where they work. But now that the affair is over, Dinah, in an act of lingering passion, invents a narrative of Asa's youth, imagining the events that shaped the "happy, handsome man" who, in her words, "was born to stomp on my heart."

Witty and sexy, funny and immediate, Asa, As I Knew Him is a a seductive dialogue between love and memory, obsession and illusion.



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Dinah Sachs and Asa Thayer have had a love affair, conducted in afternoons stolen from the office of the magazine where they work. But now that the affair is over, Dinah, in an act of lingering passion, invents a narrative of Asa's youth, imagining the events that shaped the 'happy, handsome man' who, in her words, 'was born to stomp on my heart.' Witty and sexy, funny and immediate, Asa, as I Knew Him is a seductive dialogue between love and memory, obsession and illusion.



Review Quotes




"Profound, surprising, and ultimately enlightening . . . Kaysen is a gifted and potent author." --Los Angeles Times

"Susanna Kaysen possesses a lyrical wryness that splendidly evokes . . . all the scents and unnamed sadnesses that lay claim to memory and give us reason to go on." --Boston Globe

"It is a tribute to Kaysen's considerable talent that we easily believe in all her inventions." --The New York Times Book Review

"Luminous." --San Francisco Chronicle



About the Author



Susanna Kaysen is also the author of the novel Far Afield and Girl, Interrupted, a memoir. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.25 Inches (W) x .51 Inches (D)
Weight: .47 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 176
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Series Title: Vintage Contemporaries
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Language: English
Street Date: April 19, 1994
TCIN: 91285210
UPC: 9780679753773
Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-3197
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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