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Автор: White, Edmund
Название: The Beautiful Room Is Empty
ISBN: 0679755403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679755401
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9780.00 T
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Описание: 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

Автор: White Edmund
Название: Our Young Man
ISBN: 1408858967 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408858967
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: 'Has everyone always been in love with you? Of course they have, who am I kidding? What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships'New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart is Guy. The darling of Fire Island's gay community and one of New York's top male models, Guy is gliding his way to riches that are a world away from his modest provincial upbringing back home in France.

Like some modern-day Dorian Gray he seems untouched by time: the decades pass, fashions change, yet his beauty remains as transcendent and captivating as ever. Such looks cannot help but bring him adoration. From sweet yet pathetic Fred to the wealthy and masochistic Baron, from the acerbic and cynical Pierre-Georges to Andre, fabricating Dali fakes and hurtling towards prison and the abyss, all are in some way fixated on him.

In return for the devotion and expensive gifts they lavish on him, he plays with unswerving loyalty whatever role they project onto him: unattainable idol, passionate lover, malleable client. But just as the years are catching up on his smooth skin and perfect body, so his way of life is closing in on him and destroying the men he loves. Edmund White has in Our Young Man created some of the richest representations of gay male identity, from the disco era to the age of AIDs.

What links them all is the allure and enchantment they find in beauty. Revelling in its magic, Our Young Man nonetheless slips beneath the seductive surface to examine its dangerous depths, exploring its power to fascinate, enslave and deceive. Mesmerising, blackly comic, and delicately crafted, this is an exquisite novel from a contemporary master.

Автор: White Edmund
Название: My Lives: A Memoir
ISBN: 0060937963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060937966
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 19610.00 T
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Описание: A book as gossipy and readable as Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, filled with humor, social history, and the wide-ranging experiences of one of our most reverd writers.

Автор: White, Edmund
Название: Boy`s Own Story, A
ISBN: 0143114840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143114840
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The "extraordinary novel" (The New York Times Book Review) about one boy's coming-of-age during the 1950s--and one of the most groundbreaking portrayals of gay life in American fiction

"The best American narrative of sexual awakening since Catcher in the Rye." --Chicago Sun-Times

Ridiculed by his classmates and beset by aloof parents and a cruel sister, the unnamed narrator of Edmund White's first autobiographical novel finds solace in literature, works of art, and his own fantastic imagination. But as he strives to forge new friendships, his yearning to be loved by the men in his life evokes a crushing sense of shame and a struggle to accept who he is. Lyrical and poignant, A Boy's Own Story--the first of a trilogy, followed by The Beautiful Room Is Empty and The Farewell Symphony--is an American literary treasure that became an instant classic upon publication for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality.

Автор: White Edmund
Название: City Boy
ISBN: 0747592136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747592136
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: A memoir of the sociel and sexual lives of New York City`s cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White.

Автор: White, Edmund
Название: Flaneur
ISBN: 0747596875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747596875
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 7910.00 T
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Описание: The kind of tour guide you really want - a unique and ecclectic view of Paris through the eyes of a fierce and witty intellect.

Автор: White, Edmund
Название: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 0143114980 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143114987
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Edmund White
Название: A Boy`s Own Story
ISBN: 1509813861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509813865
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Цена: 7690.00 T
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Описание: Every so often a novel comes along that is so ambitious in its intention and so confident of its voice that it reminds us what a singular and potent thing a novel can be` San Francisco Chronicle

Автор: White, Edmund
Название: Saint from texas
ISBN: 1526600447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526600448
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: From legendary writer 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 Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far grander fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbour their own secrets and dreams -ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets of Jerico, Colombia.

And yet, even as they remake themselves in their radically different lives, the twins find that the bonds of family and the past are unbreakable. Spanning the 1950s to the recent past, Edmund White's marvellous novel serves up an immensely pleasurable epic of two Texas women as their lives traverse varied worlds: the swaggering opulence of the Dallas nouveau riche, the airless pretention of the Paris gratin and the strict piety of a Colombian convent.

Автор: White, Edmund
Название: Forgetting Elena
ISBN: 067975573X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679755739
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9780.00 T
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Автор: White Edmund
Название: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America
ISBN: 0299302644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780299302641
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Radel Nicholas F.
Название: Understanding Edmund White
ISBN: 1611171369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611171365
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Описание: Nicholas F. Radel's Understanding Edmund White, the first book-length critical study of White's work, examines America's best-known gay novelist within the changing social contexts of the past half-century, when gay and lesbian people moved from being seen as psychologically deviant to being increasingly accepted as productive members of society. Radel explores the ways White documents this cultural transition, in both his fiction and his nonfiction, and contributes to it by making gay writing a source for new knowledge of sexuality.
Taking into account recent scholarship on White, Radel provides insightful analysis of the author's autobiographical novels and short stories, from A Boy's Own Story through The Married Man and Chaos. Understanding Edmund White makes White's early experimental novels, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and Caracole, as well as his later historical fiction, Fanny and Hotel de Dream, accessible by showing how their emphasis on sexuality and social change connects them to the autobiographical fictions. Radel also shows how White's most recent novel, Jack Holmes and His Friend, deftly combines historical and autobiographical narratives to become one of the author's most nuanced explorations of American sexuality. Understanding Edmund White additionally contains a new, previously unpublished interview with White that provides revealing information about the impact his work as a biographer has had on his later fiction.
Grounded in ongoing critical debates in social and literary theory central to understanding contemporary gay literature, Radel's introduction to White's complex literary vision portrays the writer's evolving perceptions of the issues confronting his gay characters and narrators, boys and men who struggle in the early autobiographical novels to achieve a sense of self-worth but assume in the later novels and nonfiction confident voices that speak for and about American culture and sexualities of all types.