Unpunished Vice, White Edmund

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: 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: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 0143114980 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143114987
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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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)
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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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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