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1	Boy's Own Story more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist This novel revolves around a gay adolescent boy coming of age in the 1950s and is based, in part, on Edmund White's own life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The married man more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist In Edmund White's highly autobiographical novel, Austin Smith, a man from an aristocratic Southern family, moves to the Ile St. Louis in Paris and begins an affair with Julien, who is not only 20 years younger but married and in the throes of a divorce. Eventually, the two men move to Providence, R.I., where Austin has a teaching job, and Julien ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist Novelist Edmund White writes about the Paris that's not seen from the tour bus. A resident of Paris for 16 years, he aims to give the reader the insights of the "flâneur"--a stroller, or, according to the French, "an artist of impressions." His constitutionals take him from one end of the city to the other, anecdote by literary anecdote, bringing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Salvation Army more books like this by Abdellah Taia, Frank Stock (Translator), Edmund White (Introduction by) add to wishlist This is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel by the 'only gay man' in Morocco. An autobiographical novel by turn naive and cunning, funny and moving, this most recent work by Moroccan expatriate Abdellah Taia is a major addition to the new French literature emerging from the North African Arabic diaspora. "Salvation Army" is a coming-of-age ... see all copies from $8.74! new only from $8.74! \| SVS
5	Marcel Proust: A Penguin Lives Biography more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist Novelist Edmund White, who has also written a biography of Genet, writes succinctly about Proust, with whom he admits he has long been fascinated. White points out that Proust himself is an excellent writer of memoirs--if REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST is seen as a recreation, at least partly, of Proust's own past through language, examination of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Farewell Symphony more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist The final installment of Edmund White's three-volume autobiographical novel (following upon "A Boy's Own Story" and "The Beautiful Room is Empty"). Beginning with the narrator's return to New York from Paris in the early 1970s, it describes the beginning of his career as a writer and journalist and his immersion in the gay subculture of New York. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Beautiful Room Is Empty more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist Edmund White's sequel to A BOY'S OWN STORY follows the artistic young narrator from a claustrophobic Midwestern college town in the 1950s through the "turning point" of his life--the night of the Stonewall rebellion in Greenwich Village in 1969, an event at which White himself was present and which turned him into a gay activist. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist Whites historical novel portrays the tragic moments of literary giant Stephen Crane on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis, as he dictates his final novel. Brilliantly researched and aching with life, Whites novel also explores the seedy underbelly of turn-of-the-century New York. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Forgetting Elena more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist An amnesia victim tries to piece his life back together as he struggles to identify the people who surround him, and at the same time to devise some form of self-identification that will tell him who he is. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	My Lives: An Autobiography more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist In this autobiography filled with humor and social history, one of today's most revered writers evokes past moments and draws portraits of the interesting and celebrated people he has met during his extraordinary life. 8-page b&w photo insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Fanny: A Fiction more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist Frances Trollope, mother of the novelist Anthony Trollope, was a writer herself--a hack who wrote strictly for money, and whose most famous book was DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS, which was not exactly a rave review of the country where she spent four years in the 1830s trying to make her fortune. In this novel, Frances (nicknamed Fanny) is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist The distinguished biographer, novelist, and memoirist White brings his literary mastery to a new biography of 19th-century poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud. see all copies from $8.81! new only from $8.81! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Nocturnes for the king of Naples more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing, intimacy of a stranger's love letters. The intense emotional situation envelops the readers from the first page; like all images in a dream, White's characters are the most real people we know, thought they remain phantoms. ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Selected Writings of Jean Genet more books like this by Jean Genet, Edmund White (Introduction by) add to wishlist This comprehensive volume celebrates the legendary work of one of this century's most enigmatic, intriguing, and heralded writers by bringing together for the first time a generous selection of Genet's greatest work. Published to coincide with White's new biography of Genet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions
15	The Joy of Gay Sex: An Intimate Guide for Gay Men to the Pleasures of a Gay Lifestyle more books like this by Charles Silverstein add to wishlist see all copies from $14.75! signed copies \| first editions
16	States of Desire: Gay America more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist "City Boy" tells the story of White's years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to his erotic entanglements downtown to the city's burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers. see all copies from $10.50! new only from $17.11! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Criminal Desires: Jean Genet and Cinema more books like this by Jane Giles, Edmund White (Preface by) add to wishlist Jean Genet, the French author notorious for his overt cele-bration of criminality and homosexuality, was also fascinated with cinema. His only film, "Un Chant d'amour," made in 1950, was a poetic and sexually explicit visual paean to homosexual desire, the criminal impulse, and the power of the imagination. Banned on the grounds of obscenity, the ... see all copies from $3.75! new only from $4.89! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	A Boy's Own Story: Revised Edition more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist This novel revolves around a gay adolescent boy coming of age in the 1950s and is based, in part, on Edmund White's own life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.01!
20 view cover	Genet: A Biography more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France's most notorious writers. Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet's experiences in the worlds of crime, homosexuality, politics, and high culture, and gives a compelling analysis of Genet's plays, novels, and essays. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Lies: A Diary 1986-1999 more books like this by Mr. Ned Rorem, Edmund White (Foreword by) add to wishlist Ned Rorem's diary covers the years during which both his beloved parents die (as do many old friends, including Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, Harold Brodkey), he himself suffers from various ailments as he enters his 70s, and, finally, Jim Holmes, his companion of many years, dies from a combination of AIDS and cancer. Rorem is never less ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Skinned Alive: Stories more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist This collection of eight stories appends White's past works of autobiographical fiction, which include "A Boy's Own Story" and "The Beautiful Room is Empty." Taking place both in the U.S. and in Europe, White's stories blend the drama, fear, and anger of facing AIDS with the graceful wit and precise eye of his narrative voice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Marcel Proust: A Life more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist Novelist Edmund White, who has also written a biography of Genet, writes succinctly about Proust, with whom he admits he has long been fascinated. White points out that Proust himself is an excellent writer of memoirs--if REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST is seen as a recreation, at least partly, of Proust's own past through language, examination of ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $8.55! \| SVS
24 view cover	Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS more books like this by Edmund White (Editor) add to wishlist When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. Loss within Loss is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. These essayists include Maya Angelou, Allan Gurganus, Brad ... see all copies from $2.86! new only from $8.92! \| first editions
25 view cover	Marcel Proust more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist Novelist Edmund White, who has also written a biography of Genet, writes succinctly about Proust, with whom he admits he has long been fascinated. White points out that Proust himself is an excellent writer of memoirs--if REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST is seen as a recreation, at least partly, of Proust's own past through language, examination of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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