Edmund White: Und das schöne Zimmer ist leer

Dt. v. Benjamin Schwarz. D 2012, 254 S., Broschur, € 15.37
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Albino
In dieser Fortsetzung zu seinem autobiografischen Coming-out-Roman »Selbstbildnis eines Jünglings« nimmt uns der schwule Erzähler nun auf seine Reise durch das Amerika der 50er und 60er Jahre mit. Beginnend mit seinen noch etwas verklemmten Studienjahren an der University of Michigan, geht er jedoch immer offener mit seiner Homosexualität um. Vor allem als er nach New York kommt, wird das, was ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 393 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
Edmund White's »A Boy's Own Story« was the first gay book I've ever read as such. And to be honest I didn't like it much. Even though I grew up in a comparably provincial surrounding as the young guy in »A Boy's Own Story« does (well, not the American Midwest but rural Bavaria - which is certainly close) it was ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Selbstbildnis eines Jünglings

Die Besten. Dt. v. Benjamin Schwarz. D 2011, 268 S., geb., € 17.99
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Albino - Die Besten 1
Mit diesem autobiografischen Roman konnte Edmund White 1982 seinen Durchbruch feiern. »Selbstbildnis eines Jünglings« kann heute als Klassiker der schwulen Coming-out-Literatur gelten. Und Edmund White gehört heute zu den bedeutendsten schwulen Autoren in den USA. In diesem Roman porträtiert er in einem unaufgeregten, ruhigen Ton das Schwulwerden eines Jungen im Mittleren Westen der 1950er Jahre. Die Klassenkameraden machen sich über ... Weiterlesen
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Edmund White: City Boy

My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s. UK/D/USA/AUS 2010, 297pp., Pb, € 19.95
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When Edmund White left the Midwest after college he had an opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. at Harvard. Instead, he followed a lover to New York City. There he arrives broke and unknown, struggling to express himself as a gay man even as he holds out hope of being »cured«. Present at the Stonewall uprising in 1969, White witnesses the ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Chaos

UK 2010, 196 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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What happens when a life implodes? When a respected older man, a product of the liberated 1970s, is incapable of cleaning up his act in the 21st century? When he pursues sex with a rabidity his body and his reputation can no longer sustain? Chaos results. In this novella White takes an unsparing look at gay midlife. Here, nostalgia has ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Marcel Proust

A Life. USA 2009, 165 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Penguin USA
If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind »Remembrance of Things Past«, it is Edmund White, himself a gay writer for whom Marcel Proust has long been an obsession. White introduces us not only to the recluse endlessly rewriting his one massive work through the night, but also the darling of Parisian salons, ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: The Flaneur

UK 2008, 214 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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White, who lived in Paris for 16 years, wanders through the avenues and along the quays, into parts of the city virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many locals, luring the reader into the fascinating and seductive backstreets of his personal Paris. The organizing principle is the combined force of White's perception, imagination, frame of reference and voice. He ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Hotel de Dream

UK 2008, 228 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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In 1900, Stephen Crane is writing a new story. He's travelling to a Black Forest clinic in search of a cure for the tuberculosis that threatens his life. He dictates to his wife the story of »The Painted Boy«, inspired by a real-life encounter with a 15-year-old newsboy, Elliott. In the story Elliott is both impressionable and elusive. He finds ... Weiterlesen

Richard Canning (ed.): Between Men

USA 2007, 335 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Original fiction by Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, James McCourt, Dale Peck, Bruce Benderson, and other leading gay authors. Certain to become a cornerstone of the gay literary tradition, this anthology brings together new and unpublished stories from 18 of today's best gay writers. Edmund White delves into 19th-century Manhattan, imagining an encounter between author Stephen Crane and »The Painted Boy«. ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: My Lives

UK 2006, 368 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Bloomsbury
No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 1950s, an era that tried to »cure« homosexuality, he ... Weiterlesen

Keith Fleming: Original Youth

The Real Story of Edmund White's Boyhood. USA 2003, 168 pp., cloth, € 19.39
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The story of Edmund White's own boyhood is written by his nephew Keith Fleming: untangling the weirdness and extent of his young sex life, the depth of both his occasional despair and treachery, and the intellectual and artistic brilliance that White displayed so early on. Forced from the age of 3 to be the best friend and »advisor« to his ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: The Married Man

USA 2001, 310 pp, pb, € 17.95
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Vintage
A middle aged American works out in a Paris gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. To Austin's amused astonishment, life takes on the colour of romance. As they dash between Bohemian suppers and glittering salons, all they have to deal with ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: The Farewell Symphony

USA 1997, 413 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Following »A Boy's Own Story« (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed »The Beautiful Room Is Empty«, this is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Genet

A Biography. USA 1994, 728 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Vintage
Bastard, thief, prostitute, jailbird, homosexual, rebel, Jean Genet was one of French literature's sacred monsters. In works from »Our Lady of the Flowers« to »The Screens«, he created a scandalous personal mythology while savaging the conventions of his society. His career was a series of calculated shocks marked by feuds, rootlessness, and the embrace of unpopular causes and outcast peoples. ... Weiterlesen

Bert Büllmann: Vom Ghetto in die Gesellschaft

Der amerikanische homosexuelle Roman der 80er Jahre. D 1991, 175 S., Broschur, € 12.85
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Verlag rosa Winkel - Homosexualität und Literatur 5
Die vorliegende Untersuchung sellt den amerikanischen homosexuellen Roman in seinen bedeutendsten Vertretern zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts dar, u.a. Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt und Edmund White. Hauptthema ist die Frage nach den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer gesellschaftlichen Integration der Homosexuellen, dargestellt am Verhältnis zur Familie und zur schwulen Geschichte sowie an der Bedrohung durch AIDS.