Edmund White, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (254p) ISBN 978-0-679-43476-4
This first collection of eight of his stories is also White's first fiction in eight years. Their quality varies. Best are the three autobiographical pieces written in the first person, including the title story about a middle-aged HIV-positive...
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Edmund White. Bloomsbury, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-60819-703-3
In his latest novel, National Book Critics Circle award winner White (Genet: A Life) presents Jack Holmes, an unambitious editorial assistant at a cultural journal and Midwestern WASP who is initially conflicted by homosexuality and an unrequited...
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Edmund White, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-375-40005-6
In recent years, veteran novelist White (A Boy's Own Life; The Farewell Symphony) has turned to transatlantic themes (as in his biography of Genet). This Jamesian turn continues in the tale of Austin Smith, an expatriated scion of decayed Southern...
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Edmund White, Author Viking Books $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-88057-7
In this quietly brilliant contribution to the Penguin Lives series (see review of Crazy Horse, p. 58), White has resuscitated the art of biographical appreciation--a form favored by the first generation of writers who could be considered to...
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Edmund White, Author Knopf Publishing Group $17.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-394-56444-9
This sequel to A Boy's Own Story is a satisfying successor to that acclaimed 1982 novel, taking the narrator through the 1950s and '60s as he matures as a gay man at the University of Michigan and later in New York. Some of White's previous fiction (
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Edmund White, Author Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $16.95 (211p) ISBN 978-1-58234-135-4
The first in Bloomsbury's new, ""occasional series"" The Writer and the City, White's (The Married Man) collection of impressions stands in marked contrast to many travel books published today. The organizing principle is the combined force of White'
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Edmund White, Author Knopf Publishing Group $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-43477-1
Marked equally by erotic fervor and lyrical intensity, the final installment in White's autobiographical trilogy (following A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room Is Empty) is also the longest, the most baroque and the most elegiac. It carries us...
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Edmund White, Author . Ecco $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-000484-2
White's most recent novel, the saturnine A Married Man, showed little of the feline, Nabokovian elegance of his early work—most famously, A Boy's Own Story. White triumphantly returns to form with this historical teaser, a novel...
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Edmund White, Author Alfred A. Knopf $35 (728p) ISBN 978-0-394-57171-3
In this massive biography White gets well inside the skin of the great French writer widely known for his sensational novels, Our Lady of the Flowers and A Thief's Journal (both written in the 1940s but not published in the U.S. until two decades...
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Edmund White, Author Vintage Books USA $26.95 (800p) ISBN 978-0-679-75479-4
The NBCC Award-winning biography of Genet will be released in paperback in conjunction with two of White's novels, The Beautiful Room Is Empty ($11 ISBN -75540-3) and Forgetting Elena ($10 ISBN -75573-X). (Oct.)
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Edmund White, Author . Bloomsbury $26 (297p) ISBN 978-1-59691-402-5
Novelist and critic White (A Boy's Own Story
; The Joy of Gay Sex
) weaves erotic encounters and long-ago literati into a vast tapestry of Manhattan memories. He arrived from the Midwest in 1962, worked at Time-Life Books, haunted the Gotham...
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Edmund White, Author . Atlas $24 (192p) ISBN 978-1-934633-15-1
Here is a lean, incisive biographical-critical book by one of our outstanding literary commentators. In compelling personal writing, White (Genet: A Biography
) shows how one of the heroes of French culture, Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), led a...
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Edmund White, Author . Ecco $23.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-06-085225-2
A biographical fantasia, White's latest imagines the final days of the poet and novelist Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage
), who died of TB at age 28 in 1900. At the same time, White also imagines and writes The Painted Boy
, a work that
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Edmund White, Author . Carroll & Graf $21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-78672-005-7
The title novella from novelist, memoirist and biographer White (Genet
, etc.) turns on the guilt that gay novelist Jack, 66, feels about not visiting his dying friend Helene in Paris, and on Jack's obsession with Seth, 28, a charmless ex-Mormon
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Edmund White, Author . Ecco $25.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-06-621397-2
White—a prolific essayist, novelist, biographer (of Proust and Genet), travel writer, critic and all-around man of letters—has mined the events and circumstances of his own life frequently and vividly, and has been the subject of two...
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Edmund White, Author, David Bergman, Editor Vintage Books USA $17.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-75474-9
Selections gathered from 25 years of White's nonfiction writings, with an emphasis on recent developments in gay experience and White's reviews of a variety of contemporary writers. (Nov.)
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Edmund White, Author, David Bergman, Editor Knopf Publishing Group $25 (386p) ISBN 978-0-679-43475-7
White's collection, unified by sharp wit and seemingly boundless erudition, has a surprising drawback: his trademark elegance of style, which works well in his book reviews (a large portion of which are reproduced here) is less appropriate to his...
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Edmund White, Author, Hubert Sorin, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44166-3
White's stunning achievements as a novelist, short story writer (most recently, Skinned Alive, LJ 6/15/95), and journalist are now augmented by a charming, funny, telling series of vignettes of the Paris neighborhood where he and his lover, Hubert...
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Edmund White, Author, Adam Mars-Jones, Author, Jerry White, Author Plume Books $8.95 (233p) ISBN 978-0-452-26070-2
This is a timely collection: seven stories (four by Mars-Jones, a British writer, and three by White, the noted author of A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room Is Empty) that examine the various effects of AIDS on gay men, their families and...
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Edmund White. Bloomsbury, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-60819-582-4
In this third memoir, acclaimed novelist, essayist, and biographer White (A Boy’s Own Story) reflects on his sexual conquests, his self-discoveries, and his observations about the differences between the French and Americans in the city of Proust,...
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Edmund White. Bloomsbury, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-62040-996-1
Guy, a beautiful young man from the French countryside, is picked up by a modeling scout on a church trip to Paris; he rapidly ascends through the Parisian modeling world and crosses the Atlantic with plans to make it big in the New York fashion...
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Edmund White. Bloomsbury, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-1-63557-117-2
In this mélange of essay and memoir, author White (Our Young Man) reflects on the books and people that helped shape his remarkable literary life. In 2014, while recovering from a heart attack, he found that the seemingly impossible had happened: he
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Edmund White. Bloomsbury, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-63557-255-1
White (The Unpunished Vice) serves up a mesmerizing sensual history of identical twin sisters who leave their booming Texas oil town for Paris and a Colombian convent. As teens in 1950s Ranger, Tex., Yvonne and Yvette Crawford are as different as...
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Edmund White. Bloomsbury, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-63557-727-3
White (A Saint from Texas) offers an erotically charged and ingenious metafictional story of a married couple. In 2050, 70-something Sicilian musician Ruggero Castelnuovo agrees, with his 30-year-old American wife, Constance, to break the silence...
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Edmund White. Bloomsbury, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-63973-088-9
In White’s audacious latest (after A Previous Life), wealthy Manhattanite Aldwych West pursues the younger August Dupond, principal dancer for the New York City Ballet. The 80-year-old’s aching desire for the 20-year-old enfant terrible leads to a...
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Edmund White. Bloomsbury, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-63973-372-9
With his trademark irreverence, White (The Humble Lover) celebrates more than six decades of sex in a candid memoir that doubles as an indispensable work of queer history. A “practicing gay” since age 13, White, now in his 80s, catalogs sexual...
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Edmund White et al. Top Shelf, $29.99 (264p) ISBN 978-1-60309-508-2
In this successful graphic adaptation, Brian Alessandro (Performer Non Grata) and Michael Carroll (Stella Maris) preserve the lyricism of White’s semi-autobiographical 1982 novel, aided by Igor Karash’s lush, painterly visuals. White’s coming-of-age
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