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A Previous Life by Edmund White
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Elegant, erudite, raunchy and fun' Andrew Sean Greer 'The best book in Edmund White's long and extraordinary career' Benjamin moser 'Fresh and inventive and wise' Rebecca Makkai A daring, category-confounding and ruthlessly funny novel from Edmund White, exploring polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and ...Show more
Caracole by Edmund White
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembl ...Show more
Genet - A Biography by Edmund White
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
FROM THE AUTHOR OF A BOY'S OWN STORY AND THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY'A superb introduction to the great novelist and playwright, vagabond, thief and convict, and to the brutal childhood from which he mined his remarkable vision' J G Ballard, Books of the Year, Sunday TimesInterviewing lovers, friends, publish ...Show more
Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Many straight men and gay men are best friends, but if the phenomenon is an urban commonplace it has never been treated before as the focus of a major novel. Jack Holmes is in love, but the man he loves never shares his bed. The other men Jack sleeps with never last long and he dallies with several ...Show more
My Lives by Edmund White
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A moving, hilarious, shocking and enlightening memoir from Edmund White, bestselling author of A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room is Empty.No one has been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels ...Show more
New York Boy - My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s by Edmund White
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
In the 1970s, Paris had fashion, London had the theatre, Berlin had a small painting scene, but New York had all these cultural attainments and more - a vibrant intellectual life. In a decade when New York City was on the verge of bankruptcy, when local headlines were dominated by stories of urban scand ...Show more
Skinned Alive - Stories by Edmund White
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ranging in their settings from Paris and London to New York, this book represents a collection of White's short stories about being gay, from first unrequited love to coping with AIDS.
The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
Following A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after an ...Show more
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