Out of place
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780394587394
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Intellectuals; Palestinian Americans; Biography
Description: "Out of Place is an extraordinary story of exile, a narrative of many departures, a celebration of an irrecoverable past.

A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this memoir he rediscovers the Arab landscape of his early years - "the many places and people [who] no longer exist....Essentially a lost world." Vast changes occurred as Palestine became Israel, Lebanon was transformed by twenty years of civil war, and the colonial Egypt of King Farouk disappeared forever by 1952."--BOOK JACKET.

"Underscoring all is the confusion of identity as Said had to come to terms with the dissonance of being an American citizen, a Christian and a Palestinian, and, ultimately, an outsider."--BOOK JACKET.