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• The Loves of My Life

  a Sex Memoir

  White, Edmund, 1940-

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  Written with White's signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.

• Jack Holmes and His Friend

  a Novel

  White, Edmund, 1940-

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  Jack Holmes and Will Wright arrive in New York in the calm before the storm of the 1960s. Coworkers at a cultural journal, they soon become good friends. Jack even introduces Will to the woman he will marry. But their friendship is complicated: Jack…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Humble Lover

  a Novel

  White, Edmund, 1940-

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  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.

• Inside a Pearl

  My Years in Paris

  White, Edmund, 1940- ,

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  When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was forty-three years old, couldn't speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Previous Life

  Another Posthumous Novel

  White, Edmund, 1940-

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  A daring, category-confounding, and ruthlessly funny novel from National Book Award honored author Edmund White that explores polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and love.

• Hotel De Dream

  a New York Novel

  White, Edmund, 1940-

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  In a damp, old sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author of The Red Badge of Courage has retreated to England with his wife,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Saint From Texas

  a Novel

  White, Edmund, 1940-

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  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.

• Our Young Man

  a Novel

  White, Edmund, 1940-

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  Our Young Man follows the life of a gorgeous Frenchman, Guy, as he goes from the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand to the top of the modeling profession in New York City's fashion world, becoming the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Like…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fanny

  a Fiction

  White, Edmund, 1940-

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  In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet -- the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City Boy

  My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s

  White, Edmund, 1940-

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  "City Boy" tells the story of White's years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to his entanglements downtown to the city's burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers.