Forgetting Elena by White, Edmund
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Forgetting Elena by White, Edmund

Forgetting Elena

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A captivating novel that explores the complexities of social conventions and the desperate yearning for acceptance

"An astonishing first novel...uncannily beautiful." --The New York Times Book Review

On the privileged island community where Forgetting Elena takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one's bathroom habits to the composition of "spontaneous" poetry is subject to rigid conventions.

Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/04/1994
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9780679755739
ISBN10: 067975573X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Gay

About the Author
Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony, as well as Caracole, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and Skinned Alive, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America--States of Desire--and Our Paris. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.