# The Elusive Embrace

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- Book: [The Elusive Embrace](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-mendelsohn/the-elusive-embrace) ([The Elusive Embrace.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-mendelsohn/the-elusive-embrace.md))
- Authors: [Daniel Mendelsohn](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-mendelsohn)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-7570-697-4
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2000-06-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides,...