Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780452254305ISBN:0452254302
Description: Good + No Jacket as Issued. Trade Paperback. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Corners lightly bumped, edges lightly worn. Small crease on back cover at lower left corner. Binding tight, pages clean but tanned. Your purchase helps support a kindly, old, sometimes crusty, truly independent book seller. He thanks you. His creditors thank you as well. (Hey kids, show grampa and gramma how to shop for books on the internet) 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780452254305ISBN:0452254302
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Tanning from edges of pages; very light cover wear; no marks; no writing in book; no spine crease; binding straight, tight; pages bright, odor-free; ships promptly with Delivery Confirmation. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I think the book was enjoyable and certainly broadens the mind.
However it was quite possible one of the single most self indulgent novels I've ever read.
I also found the novel flicked around moving between subjects - which is an effective technique - though it was sometimes executed rather clumsily. The stream, which should have been smooth, became jagged through poor connections and redundant paragraphs informing the reader on matters the author had already spent effort enlightening us on. This gave it the sense that the book had been written disparately, in different times and in different order from how it was presented to the reader."
"White's poetic prose is often thrillingly evocative and the story is laced with passages so beautiful that one can't help but reread them. As a gay coming-of-age story it is much better than most. Even so I was often not in synch with the narrator, feeling as if some of the most interesting sections were quickly dispatched while other, less interesting parts were belabored. This is, in the end, a poignant memoir and an account of White's boyhood (not my own); his decisions regarding pacing and emphasis must obviously trump mine."
"I love Edmund White's writing. This book is an insightful read for people from broken homes or for people who want to look at adolescence through a brilliant man's eyes. It's also a gay story, so your enjoyment of the story might related to how much you relate to or take an interest in that."
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