02467cam a2200325 4500 526165220 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802190116 0802190111 B01DUNXW9E Amazon 99e32228-1660-441e-afef-fc766a97c79a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2679261 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Alameddine, Rabih. The Angel of History [Libby]. Grove Atlantic, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2183kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2183kB. Fiction. Literature. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML:A gay poet is haunted by war and the AIDs crisis in this "sprawling fever dream of a novel" by the Dos Passos Prize-winning author of An Unnecessary Woman (NPR.org). 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. His memories take him 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. Haunted by an alluring, sassy Satan, who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past, and by dour, frigid Death, who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by fourteen saints. With Jacob recalling his life in Cairo, Beirut, Sana'a, Stockholm, and San Francisco, Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrayal of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound story that "marks the triumph of memory over oblivion" (Bookforum).. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=99e32228-1660-441e-afef-fc766a97c79a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=99e32228-1660-441e-afef-fc766a97c79a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=99e32228-1660-441e-afef-fc766a97c79a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)