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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The distinguished biographer, novelist, and memoirist White brings his literary mastery to a new biography of 19th-century poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud.
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.
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. ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Twenty-five years of Edmund White's nonfiction is here collected into a single volume. Includes "The Gay Philosopher", "Sexual Culture", "Out of the Closet, on to the Bookshelf", and "The Personal Is Political: Queer Fiction and Criticism", as well as appreciations of Capote, Cormac McCarthy, Mapplethorpe, and the musician who was born Prince ...
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.
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 ...
"Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue" is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who ...
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 ...
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