Arts and Letters

Author:   Edmund White (Edmund White)
Publisher:   Cleis Press
ISBN:  

9781573441957


Pages:   376
Publication Date:   10 January 2004
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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A dazzling collection of profiles and interviews by the preeminent American cultural essayist of our time. In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best-selling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good humour to illuminate some of the most influential writers, artists, and cultural icons of the past century: among them, Marcel Proust, Catherine Deneuve, George Eliot, Andy Warhol, Andre Gide, David Geffen, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Whether he's praising Nabokov's sensuality, or critiquing Elton John's walk ( as though he's a wind-up doll that's been overwound and sent heading for the top of the stairs ), or describing serendipitous moments in his seven-year-long research into the life of Genet, White is unfailingly observant, erudite, and entertaining.

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Author:   Edmund White (Edmund White)
Publisher:   Cleis Press
Imprint:   Cleis Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.699kg
ISBN:  

9781573441957


ISBN 10:   1573441953
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   10 January 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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White has a novelist's eye for the telling detail or the remarkable place. - New York Times As a writer, White possesses the rare combination of a poetic sense of language and an ironic sense of humour. - Newsweek From the first few pages, I was ready to give myself over to his wanderings, just to find out where he would go next...Edmund White tells such a good story that I'm ready to listen to anything he wants to talk about. - New York Times


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Edmund White is the author of 20 books including A Boy's Own Story, The Farewell Symphony and the National Book Critics Circle Award winning Genet: a Biography. He is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and Vanity Fair. He directs the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives in New York City.

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