Background
White, Edmund Valentine was born on January 13, 1940 in Cincinnati. Son of Edmund Valentine and Delilah (Teddlie) White.
(What happens when one of our most celebrated writers comb...)
What happens when one of our most celebrated writers combines talents with a French artist and architect to capture life in their Parisian neighborhood? The result is a lighthearted, gently satiric portrait of the heart of Paris -- including the Marais, Les Halles, the two islands in the Seine, and the Châtelet -- and the people who call it home. It is an enchantingly varied world, populated not only by dazzling literati and ultrachic couturiers and art dealers but also by poetic shopkeepers, grandmotherly prostitutes, and, ever underfoot, an irrepressible basset hound named Fred. The foibles and eccentricities of these sometimes outrageous, always memorable individuals are brought to life with unfailing wit and affection. Below the surface of the sparkling humor in Our Paris, there is a tragic undercurrent. While Hubert Sorin was completing this work, he was nearing the end of his struggle with AIDS. The book is a tribute to the loving spirit with which the authors banished somberness and celebrated the pleasures of their life together.
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(In this city-by-city description of the way homosexual me...)
In this city-by-city description of the way homosexual men lived in the late seventies, Edmund White gives us a picture of Gay America that will surprise gay and straight readers alike. With great wit and humor, the co-author of The Joy of Gay Sex tells what goes on behind the glittering surface of fashionable nightspots and glamorous resorts. But he also shows us gay engineers, gay computer experts, and gay cowboys; this is a look at a vast world never before documented. By introducing us to a wide variety of gay people, White gives us remarkable new insights into what it means to be gay in America. In States of Desire, you will meet a gay timber baron from Portland and a "big-wig" (literally as well as figuratively) in the Florida drag world. Here are: handsome lifeguards in Chicago—those "bronzed demigods . . . who lord it above us on their white wood towers"; a Hollywood host who has just spent "a typical L.A. day, driving 150 miles assembling the twelve ingredients for supper"; a San Franciscan who embraces his friends "with long, therapeutic hugs, silently searching their faces for the weather report of their subtlest, innermost feelings"; and Boston gay radicals, who defend some of the most controversial positions that concern society today. You will hear the stories of gay Cubans in Miami, a gay lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and even a self-appointed gay Mormon prophet in Salt Lake City—all narrated with a novelist's fine ear for nuance. Into this vivid tapestry of people and places the author weaves the pros and cons of such issues as gay radicalism, the "urban gay renaissance" and the much discussed gay penchant for hedonism and sexual extremism. Above all, White shows the remarkable possibilities for gay life today—from the black gay ghettos of Atlanta to communes in New England; from "friendship networks" in New York City to New Orleans-style "uptown marriages" (in which men live with wife and children uptown and keep a boy in the Quarter); from Kansas City, where the self-oppression of 1950s gay life still reigns supreme, to Fire Island's unrivaled "spectacle of gay affluence and gay-male beauty." For this eye-opening book makes clear that gay life is every bit as rich and varied as the many gay lives the author so effectively describes.
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(In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper."...)
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 resembles both Paris under the Nazis and 1980s New York. To that city comes Gabriel, an awkward boy from the provinces whose social naïveté and sexual ardor make him endlessly attractive to a variety of patrons and paramours. "A seduction through language, a masque without masks, Caracole brings back to startling life a dormant strain in serious American writing: the idea of the romantic."--Cynthia Ozick
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(This text brings together 40 of the best of Edmund White'...)
This text brings together 40 of the best of Edmund White's essays, articles and reviews from more than 20 years. Within a broad spectrum of interviews and profiles, the collection focuses on the literary and cultural figures whose work has influenced and intrigued White, such as Vladimir Nabokov, Tennesee Williams, James Merrill, Michel Foucault, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roland Barthes, Christopher Isherwood, Juan Goytisolo, and Marguerite Yourcenar. While their work is subject to White's criticism, the men and women themselves are brought to life by White's ability to convey quirks of personality and oddities of place. Interleaved with these essays are articles tracing White's response to the changing political dimensions of homosexual life - the name of the book refers to those writers and artists who have died of AIDS. Edmund White's books include "A Boy's Own Story", "States of Desire: Travels in Gay America" and "Genet".
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(Along with his groundbreaking essays that redefine politi...)
Along with his groundbreaking essays that redefine politics, language, identity, and friendship in the light of gay experience and desire, this magisterial collection of 25 years of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons as diverse as Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe and the singer formerly known as Prince. Reading tour.
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( A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes...)
A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing, intimacy of a stranger's love letters. The intense emotional situation envelops the readers from the first page; like all images in a dream, White's characters are the most real people we know, thought they remain phantoms. Each chapter, each nocturne, is set in a different emotional key, but all are interconnected through such subtle modulations that the final effect is devastating.
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(When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiog...)
When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age. "With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World
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( States of Desire Revisited looks back from the twenty-f...)
States of Desire Revisited looks back from the twenty-first century at a pivotal moment in the late 1970s: Gay Liberation was a new and flourishing movement of creative culture, political activism, and sexual freedom, just before the 1980s devastation of AIDS. Edmund White traveled America, recording impressions of gay individuals and communities that remain perceptive and captivating today. He noted politicos in D.C. working the system, in-fighting radicals in New York and San Francisco, butch guys in Houston and self-loathing but courteous gentlemen in Memphis, the "Fifties in Deep Freeze" in Kansas City, progressive thinkers with conservative style in Minneapolis and Portland, wealth and beauty in Los Angeles, and, in Santa Fe, a desert retreat for older gays and lesbians since the 1920s. White frames those past travels with a brief, bracing review of gay America since the 1970s ("now we were all supposed to settle down with a partner in the suburbs and adopt a Korean daughter"), and a reflection on how Internet culture has diminished unique gay places and scenes but brought isolated individuals into a global GLBTQ community.
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(The Burning Library THE BURNING LIBRARY By White, Edmund ...)
The Burning Library THE BURNING LIBRARY By White, Edmund ( Author )Oct-31-1995 Paperback
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(Hubert Sorin died in March 1994. For the last year of his...)
Hubert Sorin died in March 1994. For the last year of his life he worked with his lover Edmund White on this humorous portrait of their life together in Paris, and the characters they knew. Proceeds are to be donated to the Terence Higgins Trust.
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White, Edmund Valentine was born on January 13, 1940 in Cincinnati. Son of Edmund Valentine and Delilah (Teddlie) White.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1962.
Writer, Time-Life Books, New York City, 1962-1970; senior editor, Saturday Review, New York City, 1972-1973; executive director, New York Institute for Humanities, New York City, 1982-1983; assistant professor writing seminars, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1977-1979; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School Arts, New York City, 1981-1983. Professor Brown U., Providence, 1990-1992.
(Along with his groundbreaking essays that redefine politi...)
(What happens when one of our most celebrated writers comb...)
( States of Desire Revisited looks back from the twenty-f...)
(When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiog...)
(In this city-by-city description of the way homosexual me...)
( A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes...)
(This text brings together 40 of the best of Edmund White'...)
(The Burning Library THE BURNING LIBRARY By White, Edmund ...)
(In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper."...)
(Hubert Sorin died in March 1994. For the last year of his...)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
(. with dw, 1994, 385pp)
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