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Thema: Edmund White

Edmund White im Oktober 2007 - Foto von David Shankbone - wikimedia Edmund Valentine White III
(* 13. Januar 1940 in Cincinnati, Ohio) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Essayist.

Er gilt als einer der wichtigsten schwulen Autoren des ausgehenden 20. und frühen 21. Jahrhunderts, ein großer Teil seiner Romane ist autobiographisch geprägt und schildern seine Erfahrungen als offen schwul lebender Mann in den USA und Frankreich.

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Edmund White: A Previous Life

Edmund White: A Previous Life

UK 2021, 273 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
A daring, category-confounding and ruthlessly funny novel from Edmund White, exploring polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and love. Sicilian aristocrat and musician Ruggero, and his younger American wife, Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions. Until now they had a ban on speaking about the past, since transparency had wrecked their previous marriages. As the two take ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Our Young Man

Edmund White: Our Young Man

UK 2017, 283 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
Edmund White's new novel follows the life of a gorgeous Frenchman, Guy, as he goes from a French industrial city to the top of the modeling profession in New York City's fashion world, becoming the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Enjoying a full gay amorous life through the disco era and into the age of AIDS, like ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: A Boy's Own Story

Edmund White: A Boy's Own Story

UK 2016, 256 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, »A Boy's Own Story« became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality and gay life in American fiction. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to ... Weiterlesen

Monica B. Pearl: AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

Monica B. Pearl: AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

The Literature of Loss. UK 2015, 200 pp., brochure, € 59.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Taylor and Francis
This book discusses the significance of late 20th century and early 21st century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the ways in which grief is expressed and worked out in literature, showing how key texts from the ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Inside a Pearl

Edmund White: Inside a Pearl

My Years in Paris. UK 2015, 263 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was 43 years old, couldn't speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left fifteen years later to take ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: States of Desire Revisited

Edmund White: States of Desire Revisited

Travels in Gay America. USA 2014, 348 pp., brochure, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Wisconsin Press
»States of Desire Revisited« looks back from the 21st 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 ... Weiterlesen

David Plante: Becoming a Londoner

David Plante: Becoming a Londoner

UK 2014, 533 pp. with numerous colour + b/w illustrations, brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
»Nikos and I live together as lovers, as everyone knows, and we seem to be accepted because it's known that we are lovers. In fact, we are, according to the law, criminals in our making love with each other, but it is as if the laws don't apply. It is as if all the conventions of sex and clothes and ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 392 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
Jack Holmes is in love. Sadly for him, his feelings are not returned, at least not the way he would like them to be. It doesn't look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls for. The other men he takes to bed never stay for long. Jack's friend Will Wright comes from old stock, has aspirations to ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 393 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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: City Boy

Edmund White: City Boy

My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s. UK/D/USA/AUS 2010, 297pp., Pb, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Edmund White: Chaos

UK 2010, 196 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Edmund White: Marcel Proust

A Life. USA 2009, 165 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Edmund White: The Flaneur

UK 2008, 214 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Edmund White: Hotel de Dream

UK 2008, 228 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Richard Canning (ed.): Between Men

USA 2007, 335 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Edmund White: My Lives

UK 2006, 368 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Keith Fleming: Original Youth

The Real Story of Edmund White's Boyhood. USA 2003, 168 pp., cloth, € 19.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Edmund White: The Married Man

USA 2001, 310 pp, pb, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

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