Summary
From the rear cover
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.
From the jacket flap
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.
Details
- Title Asa, as I Knew Him
- Author Susanna Kaysen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date April 19, 1994
- ISBN 9780679753773 / 067975377X
- Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.25 x 0.51 in (20.32 x 13.34 x 1.30 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86046186
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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