Description
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.
Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/31/1995
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.21w x 0.93d
ISBN13: 9780679754749
ISBN10: 0679754741
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies
Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/31/1995
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.21w x 0.93d
ISBN13: 9780679754749
ISBN10: 0679754741
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies
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.