Out Of Place: A Memoir
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Printed email laid-in (from Said to previous owner)
To be perpetually caught between worlds — never fully belonging to any single culture, language, or homeland — is the condition that Edward W. Said transforms into one of the most searching and lyrical memoirs of the twentieth century. Out of Place chronicles Said's extraordinary childhood and adolescence, moving between Jerusalem, Cairo, and the United States, as he navigates the profound dissonance of an Arab identity shaped by Western education, a family torn between continents, and a name — Edward — that never quite fit the boy who bore it. Written with the same intellectual rigour and elegant prose that defined his groundbreaking critical work, this memoir is both a personal reckoning and a broader meditation on exile, identity, and belonging. Said, one of the foremost public intellectuals of his era and the author of Orientalism, presents his own life as a kind of palimpsest — layers of language, memory, and dislocation inscribed one upon the other. The result is a book that is as politically resonant as it is deeply intimate, leaving the reader to wonder whether any of us truly know the place we call home.
Author: Edward W. Said
Format: Hardback
Published: 1999, Granta Books
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Printed email laid-in (from Said to previous owner)
To be perpetually caught between worlds — never fully belonging to any single culture, language, or homeland — is the condition that Edward W. Said transforms into one of the most searching and lyrical memoirs of the twentieth century. Out of Place chronicles Said's extraordinary childhood and adolescence, moving between Jerusalem, Cairo, and the United States, as he navigates the profound dissonance of an Arab identity shaped by Western education, a family torn between continents, and a name — Edward — that never quite fit the boy who bore it. Written with the same intellectual rigour and elegant prose that defined his groundbreaking critical work, this memoir is both a personal reckoning and a broader meditation on exile, identity, and belonging. Said, one of the foremost public intellectuals of his era and the author of Orientalism, presents his own life as a kind of palimpsest — layers of language, memory, and dislocation inscribed one upon the other. The result is a book that is as politically resonant as it is deeply intimate, leaving the reader to wonder whether any of us truly know the place we call home.