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Edmund White
From National Book Award-honored author Edmund White, a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich older man who falls in love with a young ballerino.
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The letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by "the paterfamilias of queer literature" (New York Times)
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At once hilarious, sexy and heartbreaking, Chaos is a new novella and collection of short stories from hugely acclaimed writer Edmund White.
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Simon Martin
A celebration of the life and work of the artist John Craxton, a rebellious figure in British art history
From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood.
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Gallimard brought him around by encouraging him to introduce Melville’s rich biography to the French public, who knew little or nothing about the American author. The result, issued as a…
From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex.
"A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom" -Robert…
Moving with sinuous ease from a claustrophobic Midwestern college town in the 1950s to Greenwich Village on the night of the Stonewall rebellion, Edmund White’s poised yet scalding autobiographical novel…
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…
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it.
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Herve Guibert
The cult classic that describes with devastating, darkly comic clarity the experience of living with and dying from AIDS.
Nicholas F. Radel
Nicholas F. Radel’s Understanding Edmund White, the first book-length critical study of White’s work, examines America’s best-known gay novelist within the changing social contexts of the past half-century, when gay…
Brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016…
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These essays contain accounts of artists struck down by AIDS written by their friends and lovers. Many of the subjects of these essays were already prominent, but others died young…
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Examines the motivations behind the extremes in Jean Genet’s life and writing. Striving to separate the facts from the myths surrounding one of the century’s strangest and most mysterious literary…
Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White’s first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
The Pilgrimage of Premnath is a novel written by Edmund White and published in 1918. The story follows the journey of Premnath, a young Indian man who is searching for…
An irresistible literary treat: a memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City’s cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White.
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In early 2002, the renowned Santa Monica-based portraitist Don Bachardy (born 1934) was commissioned to draw a different nude from life every day.
For the next two years, Bachardy created…
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When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America’s…
Title: Street Nomenclature. A new and simple plan for preventing the inconvience resulting from the number of streets … of the same name in London, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print…
A biography of Genet that explores the perverse extremes of his life and writing, and separates the fact from the mythology which was fostered by Genet himself.
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‘Elegant, filthy - and quite possibly the queerest thing you will read all year.’ - Guardian
‘Intriguing and inventive.’ - Electric Literature, Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year
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In her fifties Fanny Trollope, mother of the novelist Anthony, became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Before long, Wright had convinced the older woman to follow…
First performed at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, on 5 August 2006.
Pushing 50, an American furniture scholar in Paris has an affair with a young and married French architect. In a desperate quest for health and happiness, the two men travel…
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…
Edmund White looks back at the varied cultures of the 1970s Gay Liberation era across the United States just before the 1980s devastation of AIDS, and in an afterword reflects…
White’s prose is as fresh as a series of slaps to the face, filled with reckless energy … [Our Young Man] speeds you along with its winningly hectic prose. –The…
‘I find it impossible to imagine anyone better read than White … Wisdom and a certain kind of tenderness are to be found on every page’ - Observer
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A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader.
A middle-aged American works out in a Paris gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam…
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A collection of short stories, set in America and Europe, this work explores the present and the past, the worlds of innocence and experience, of idealistic youth and world-weary middle…
The newest novel from virtuosic writer Edmund White about the perils of beauty; a funny, sexy account of gay life in New York City during the 1970s and ‘80s.
Concluding the trilogy that began with A Boy’s Own Story and The Beautiful Room Is Empty , White creates a novel of opulent sensuality that is at once the story…
If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind Remembrance of Things Past, it is Edmund White, himself an award- winning writer for whom…
The protagonist of this story is a homosexual, and his story is of a life in which homosexuality is a shaping force. Set in the American midwest of the 1950s…
A daring, category-confounding, and ruthlessly funny novel from National Book Award honored author Edmund White that explores polyamory and bisexuality, aging and love.
A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the streets he walks - and is in covert…
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