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  | | A Saint from Texas (Hardback) by Edmund White Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-63557-255-1, ISBN: 1-63557-255-X "For nearly half a century, Edmund White's work has revitalized American literature, blithely breaking down boundaries of class and sexuality, and A Saint From Texas is one of his most joyous, gorgeously written, and piercing works to date." |
 | | The Beautiful Room Is Empty(Reprint) A Novel by Edmund White Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1994 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75540-1, ISBN: 0-679-75540-3 "When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseu ..." |
 | | A Boy's Own Story(Reprint) A Novel by Edmund White Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311484-0, ISBN: 0-14-311484-0 "Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to seek out works of art and literature as solace-and to uncover new relationships in the struggle ..." |
 | | Hotel de Dream(Reprint) A New York Novel by Edmund White Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-085226-9, ISBN: 0-06-085226-7 "In a damp, old Sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author has retreated to England with his wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past as the proprietress of an infamous Florida bordello, the Hotel de Dream. In the midst of gathering tragedy, Crane begins dictating what will surely be his final work ..." |
 | | My Lives(Reprint) A Memoir (P.S.) by Edmund White Paperback, 382 Pages, Published 2007 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-093796-6, ISBN: 0-06-093796-3 " No one has been more frank, lucid, and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, starting with A Boy's Own Story, White here takes fiction out of his story and delivers the facts of his life in all their shocking and absorbing verity. In My Lives, White shares his enthusiasms and his passions, and he introduces us to his lovers and predilections. " |
 | | The Flaneur(1st Edition) A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White Hardcover, 211 Pages, Published 2001 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-58234-135-4, ISBN: 1-58234-135-4 "Edmund White's reflections on Paris form the first in a series of alternative travel guides in which a writer takes readers on a personalised tour of their city. White fashions himself into Baudelaire's passionate observer, The Flâneur--"that aimless stroller who loses himself in the crowd, who has no destination and goes wherever caprice or curiosity directs his or her steps"--threaded with a Proustian sensibility, connecting personal ..." |
 | | The Married Man(Reprint) A Novel by Edmund White Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-78144-8, ISBN: 0-679-78144-7 "Edmund White majored in sexual explicitness with his boldly autobiographical trilogy--A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony. Now, explicitly as ever, he trains his unflinching eye on a new subject: a young man's death from AIDS. Austin is a fiftysomething American expat in Paris; Julien is a young married man he meets at the gym. Much to Austin's surprise, Julien calls him and soon they are shari ..." |
 | | The Unpunished Vice(1st Edition) A Life of Reading by Edmund White Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-63557-117-2, ISBN: 1-63557-117-0 "A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader.Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he foll ..." |
 | | Jack Holmes and His Friend(1st Edition) A Novel by Edmund White Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2012 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-60819-703-3, ISBN: 1-60819-703-4 "Jack Holmes and Will Wright arrive in New York in the calm before the storm of the 1960s. Coworkers at a cultural journal, they soon become good friends. Jack even introduces Will to the woman he will marry. But their friendship is complicated: Jack is also in love with Will. Troubled by his subversive longings, Jack sees a psychiatrist and dates a few women, while also pursuing short-lived liaisons with other men. But in the two decade ..." |
 | | Chaos(1st Edition) by Edmund White Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-0389-9, ISBN: 1-4088-0389-5 "What happens when a life implodes? When a respected older man, a product of the liberated 1970s, is incapable of cleaning up his act for the twenty-first century? When he pursues sex with a rabidity his body and his reputation can no longer sustain? In this collection, which features two new, previously unpublished stories, Edmund White explores different aspects of ageing, romance and sex. Taking an unsparing look at gay midlife, these ..." |
 | | The Flaneur(1st Edition) A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-58234-212-2, ISBN: 1-58234-212-1 "If a place is best known by its particulars, then Edmund White is an expert on Paris. Fortunately, he's generous with his secrets: he reveals a Paris not found in any other guide in this first book in the Writer and the City series. White's Paris is seen on foot, as a flâneur, a stroller who aimlessly loses himself in a crowd, going wherever curiosity leads him and collecting impressions along the way. Paris is the perfect city for the ..." |
 | | My Lives(Updated) by Edmund White Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-7964-9, ISBN: 0-7475-7964-4 "No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 1950s, an era that tried to 'cure' homosexuality, he emerged into a 1960s society which re-designated his orientation as 'acceptable (nearl ..." |
 | | The Farewell Symphony(1st Edition) by Edmund White Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75476-3, ISBN: 0-679-75476-8 "Following A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the si ..." |
 | | Genet(1st Edition) A Biography by Edmund White Paperback, 800 Pages, Published 1994 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75479-4, ISBN: 0-679-75479-2 "In this revelatory biography of Jean Genet, we have the first full-scale life of one of the great -- and controversial -- figures of twentieth-century literature. Edmund White shows us the writer in all his permutations: poet, dandy, homosexual, thief; a 'thug of genius', as Simone de Beauvoir called him.Moving from Genet's illegitimate birth in 1910 to his foster childhood in a farming village in central France, Edmund White explores t ..." |
 | | Proust(Updated) by Edmund White Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2000 by Phoenix (An Imprint Of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) ISBN-13: 978-0-7538-0918-1, ISBN: 0-7538-0918-4 "Marcel Proust documented his existence so lavishly--albeit in fictional form--that many of his biographers have functioned as little more than code-breakers, doggedly translating art back into life. It's a great pleasure, then, to welcome Edmund White's slender, superbly artful account. A novelist himself, White beautifully evokes "the France of heavy, tasteless furniture, of engraved portraits of Prince Eugène, of clocks kept under a g ..." |
 | | The Darker Proof(2nd Edition) Stories from a Crisis by Adam Mars-Jones, Edmund White Paperback, 309 Pages, Published 1988 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-15188-2, ISBN: 0-571-15188-4 "The Darker Proof, an anthology of stories about suffering with the HIV virus, was first published in 1987 to critical acclaim. This updated version, which includes stories by Adam Mars-Jones and Edmund White, was published in 1988." |
 | | A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-5098-1386-5, ISBN: 1-5098-1386-1 "For more than two decades, Edmund White has been widely recognized as America’s preeminent gay writer. “He has a novelist’s eye for the telling detail or the remarkable phrase and, like Proust himself, concentrates upon the minutiae of the past so that it might live again,” wrote The New York Times Book Review. “White possesses the rare combination of a po-etic sense of language and an ironic sense of humor,” declared Newsweek. “[He] is ..." |
 | | Jack Holmes and His Friend(Reprint) A Novel by Edmund White Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2013 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-60819-725-5, ISBN: 1-60819-725-5 "A beautiful novel about an unconventional relationship, Jack Holmes and His Friend charts the friendship of Jack Holmes and Will Wright from their arrival in New York on the eve of the wild 60s, over two decades through the first stirrings of gay liberation and the catastrophe of AIDS. Jack is gay, Will is straight, and Jack will always be devoted to Will, but he will also introduce him to women and help him explore a more free heterose ..." |
 | | Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2012 by Bloomsbury Uk International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-0579-4, ISBN: 1-4088-0579-0 "Product Description Many straight men and gay men are best friends, but if the phenomenon is an urban commonplace it has never been treated before as the focus of a major novel. Jack Holmes is in love, but the man he loves never shares his bed. The other men Jack sleeps with never last long and he dallies with several women. He sees a shrink and practices extreme discretion about his gay adventures since the book begins in the 1960s, be ..." |
 | | City Boy(Reprint) My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s by Edmund White Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-60819-234-2, ISBN: 1-60819-234-2 "Groundbreaking literary icon Edmund White reflects on his remarkable life in New York in an era when the city was economically devastated but incandescent with art and ideas. White struggles to gain literary recognition, witnesses the rise of the gay rights movement, and has memorable encounters with luminaries from Elizabeth Bishop to William Burroughs, Susan Sontag to Jasper Johns. Recording his ambitions and desires, recalling lovers ..." |
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