About this title: 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 discovers that he has AIDS. As his health worsens, another man enters their lives--one of Austin's ex-lovers, also a victim of AIDS. By means of the dynamics among these three, Edmund White has much to say about love versus egotism. A New York Times ...
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Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780375400056ISBN:0375400052
Description: Near Fine in Very Good + to Near Fine jacket. Hard Cover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Light wear. Old store prices on FEP. (Store Display-GF) read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Trade Paperback. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. 2000-Unknown Binding---DJ shows moderate edge-wear. -Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Description: Good. 2001-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 2000-05-30
ISBN-13:9780375400056ISBN:0375400052
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Never read. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Sound binding. Dj in a protective mylar cover. All items bubblewrapped. Ships daily with free tracking included. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition, First Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780679781448ISBN:0679781447
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very good paperback copy, lightly used. The binding is solid and square, and there are no reading creases in the spine. the cover shows only the mildest wear and looks almost new. The text is clean and unmarked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------Michael Dirda praised this novel as "a winning portrait of gay Paris in the 1980s, a satire of American university life, a semi-autobiographical portrait of the artist, an ... read more
Edition: First Trade Paperback Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780679781448ISBN:0679781447
Description: Near Fine in Pictorial Wraps jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book is slightly rubbed at extremities with a 1/4" closed tear on the side edge of the front wrap. Otherwise this book is clean within and straight and tight. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Toronto, ON, Canada: Knopf Canada, 2000
Description: Hard Cover. Very Good. ISBN: 0375400052. EX-LIBRARY BOOK WITH ALL THE USUAL STAMPS AND LABELS. GOOD CONDITION. FRANCE FICTION PARIS AIDS DISEASE GAY MEN. read more
"This was a strange book. Edmund White doesn't bother trying to create likable characters, nor does he stray away from taboos or any depiction of gay men that might be condemned as stereotypical or kinky. I like that about him; he's never PC. The way these characters wandered around, travelling, while one was dying from AIDS I found oddly compelling. This is not a "fun" read, nor is it conventional by any means. It's bizarre and troubling, and I generally kept wanting to turn the page."
"Our preeminent gay author delivers a heartbreaking account of life - and, ultimately, death - with AIDS for a group of modern-day expat friends splitting their time between Paris and the States. While at times White's treatment seems aloof, deferring to the supposed superiority of French culture and European manners, his approach is a calculated one, lulling the reading into a beautiful - the man has an absolute gift for description - and genteel world before unharnessing the fatal blow. White shows the ephemerality of queer life here, the blanket rejection by the straight world and the subsequent necessity to create these inter-generational, inter-class connections that earlier felt rarified and pretension. A master stylist."
"White has a nice prose style in this book - there's something delicate and graceful about it that I appreciated. I felt like the story tended to wind though, and was maybe longer than it needed to be. It started to lose my attention about halfway through. I found the setting interesting though, when AIDS was still the 'gay plague' and the effect that had on various American and European gay communities. It was a nice peek into that chunk of history."
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