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...Upper West Side of New York, the protagonist of “Eight White Nights” sees his life flash before his eyes as he tastes a spicy hors d’oeuvre. This moment appears to be directly inspired by Proust’s episode of the madeleine??in fact, André Aciman’s entire second novel reads like an exercise in bringing a feverish Proustian narrative to twenty-first century Manhattan. This novel, which blurs the boundaries between supermarket romance and literary fiction, mainly relies on Aciman’s ease at spinning...
...novel suffers from several less-than-perfect attempts at recreating the evocative magic of Proust’s madeleine??employing peanut butter and jelly instead to achieve the “mnemonic power of a simple sandwich”—and it somewhat overeagerly propounds a pastoral ideal as the key to “the good life...
...three boldly-dressed mannequins—“Heather,” “Pauline” and now “Madeleine??—have become a trademark of the gag shop, but to Crescenzi they are just part of the family...
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