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The Cinema of Jean Genet: UN Chant D'AmourISBN 0253325846 (0-253-32584-6)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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DreamerISBN 0140073787 (0-14-007378-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Fannyby Edmund WhiteISBN 0060004851 (0-06-000485-1)
Softcover, Ecco Pr
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Fanny: A Fictionby Edmund WhiteISBN 009928572X (0-09-928572-X)
Softcover, Minerva
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny : A Fiction'Book summary:In her fifties Fanny Trollope, mother of the novelist Anthony, became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Now, twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet: the biography of her old friend Frances Wright, the Scottish radical and feminist. Back in the 1820s, the young Fanny Wright erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright had convinced the older woman to follow her to America - a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships and the most satisfying (and surprising) sensual romance of Fanny Trollope's life. The 'biography' soon degenerates into a settling of scores with Fanny Wright and wild digressions on the misadventures of Mrs Trollope's own family. [via]
Farewell Symphonyby Edmund WhiteISBN 0099276151 (0-09-927615-1)
Softcover, Random House
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Forgetting Elenaby Edmund WhiteISBN 0140059830 (0-14-005983-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forgetting Elena'Book summary:Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, 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.
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Hotel de Dream: A New York Novelby Edmund WhiteISBN 0060852267 (0-06-085226-7)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel'Book summary: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, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past as the proprietress of a Florida bordello, the Hotel de Dream.
Though Crane's days are numbered, he and Cora live riotously, running up bills they'll never be able to pay, receiving visitors like Henry James and Joseph Conrad, and even planning a mad dash to Germany's Black Forest, where Cora hopes a leading TB specialist will provide a miracle cure.
Then, in the midst of the confusion and gathering tragedy of their lives, Crane begins dictating a strange novel. The Painted Boy draws from Crane's erstwhile journalist days in New York in the 1890s, a poignant story about a boy prostitute and the married man who ruins his own life to win the boy's love. Crane originally planned the book as a companion piece to Maggie, Girl of the Streets, but abandoned it when literary friends convinced him that such scandalous subject matter would destroy his career. Now, with his last breath, Crane devotes himself to refashioning this powerful novel, into which he pours his fascination with the underworld, his sympathy for the poor, his experiences as a reporter among New York's lowlifeand his complex feelings for his own devoted wife.
Seamlessly flowing between the vibrant, seedy atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Manhattan and the quiet Sussex countryside, Hotel de Dream tenderly presents the double love stories of Cora and Crane, and the painted boy and his banker lover. The brilliant novel-within-a-novel combines the youthful simplicity of Crane's own prose with White's elegant sense of form, offering an unforgettable portrait of passion in all its guises.
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Lives: Proust 12 X Dumpbinby Edmund WhiteISBN 0297644319 (0-297-64431-9)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDSby Estate Project for Artists With AIDS, Alliance for the Arts (New York, N.Y.), Edmund WhiteISBN 0299170748 (0-299-17074-8)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Marcel Proustby Edmund White , John MahoneyISBN 0140884246 (0-14-088424-6)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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My Livesby Edmund WhiteISBN 0060937963 (0-06-093796-3)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Lives: A Memoir'Book summary:No one has been more frank, lucid, and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, starting with A Boy's Own Story, White here takes fiction out of his story and delivers the facts of his life in all their shocking and absorbing verity. In My Lives, White shares his enthusiasms and his passions, and he introduces us to his lovers and predilections.
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The New Joy of Gay Sexby Edmund WhiteISBN 0060168137 (0-06-016813-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Nocturnes for the King of Naplesby Edmund WhiteISBN 0140053301 (0-14-005330-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nocturnes for the King of Naples'Book summary: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.[via]More editions of Nocturnes for the King of Naples:
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Our Paris: Sketches from Memoryby Edmund White , Hubert SorinISBN 0060085924 (0-06-008592-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Paris: Sketches from Memory'Book summary: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. [via]More editions of Our Paris: Sketches from Memory:
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Edmund WhiteISBN 0192100319 (0-19-210031-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996by Allen Ginsberg, Vaclav Havel, Edmund WhiteISBN 0060930829 (0-06-093082-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996'Book summary:The interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. Always a candid and engaging subject, Ginsberg considered the interview an art form, as well as an opportunity to get his message across to many people, which, as a student of Eastern religions, he believed was his spiritual obligation. In these interviews, dating from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, Ginsberg speaks frankly about his life, his work, and the events of his time.
Ginsberg's progressive and controversial views on politics and censorship dominate his interviews, from his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his comments in the Dartmouth Review about U.S. policy in Central America to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial. Ginsberg discusses his literary influences, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, and William Blake, and offers insights into his own poetry, particularly his innovations in rhythm, meter, and syllable emphasis. A well-known experimenter with drugs, campaigner for their legalization, and believer in their ability to expand consciousness, Ginsberg here describes his LSD trips and his marijuana highs, and explains how they influenced the creation of "Kaddish" and other works. And he talks about his personal life with candor, revealing details of his sexual affairs with fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, and his longtime relationship with Peter Orlovsky.
Provocative and illuminating, Spontaneous Mind allows us to hear once again the impassioned voice of one of the most influential literary and cultural figures of our time. [via]
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States of Desire: Travels in Gay Americaby Edmund WhiteISBN 023397301X (0-233-97301-X)
Hardcover, Andre Deutsch
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