Call Me by Your Name

Updated: 7 Sep 2020

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Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time OscarTM Nominee James IvoryThe Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted ScreenplayA New York Times BestsellerA USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Vulture Book Club Pick An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our TimeAndre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for FicitionA New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection • A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year

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Timothée Chalamet

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I found my first copy of the book recently, and I felt happy that the passage that I'd annotated the most was Mr. Perlman's speech at the end. The moment that always resonates with me the most is when Mr. Perlman says, 'Before you know it, your heart is worn out, and as for our bodies, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it.' And that, I had highlighted and underlined it, and even right now it gives me goose bumps, I don't know why… That idea that if you feel shitty when you're grieving, whether that's over a lost romance, or a lost parent, you're doing it correctly, and you don't need to add the baggage of beating yourself on top of it. That is a human trait to do that, but it is also of the self-loathing generation, my generation—and that's something I've really tried to carry in my life.

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