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The idiot / (Record no. 86523)

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003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780143111061 (paperback)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Modifying agency PUMLC
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency DCL
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PS3602
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition information 23
Classification number AC-F
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Batuman, Elif.
9 (RLIN) 11770
Relator term author
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The idiot /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Elif Batuman.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York ;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017.
264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York:
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Penguin Books,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 423 pages.;
Dimensions 21 cm
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content type term text
Source rdacontent
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media type term Unmediated
Source rda media
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier type term volume
Source rdacarrier
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself.The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail"-- Provided by publisher.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Women college students
General subdivision Fiction.
9 (RLIN) 11771
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Identity (Psychology)
General subdivision Fiction.
9 (RLIN) 11772
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Literary
General subdivision Fiction.
9 (RLIN) 11773
651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Turkish Americans
General subdivision Fiction.
9 (RLIN) 11774
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Books
Call number prefix AC-F
Call number suffix B336
Suppress in OPAC No
Koha issues (borrowed), all copies 4
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date last checked out Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     American Corner Book Collection Matheson Library Matheson Library American Corner 13.09.2022 Donated by US Embassy 0.00 4 AC-F B336 164514 20.05.2024 20.05.2024 13.09.2022 Books