Skinned Alive: Stories

Author:   Edmund White
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
ISBN:  

9780679754756


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 May 1996
Format:   Paperback
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Skinned Alive: Stories


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The eight stories in this erotic and heartbreaking collection are barometers of difference. They measure the distance between an American expatriate and the Frenchman who tutors him in table manners and rough sex; the gulf between a man dying of AIDS and his uncomprehending relatives.

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Author:   Edmund White
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Random House USA Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 13.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.80cm
Weight:   0.312kg
ISBN:  

9780679754756


ISBN 10:   067975475
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 May 1996
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Wrenching, glorious, seductive . . . urgent and kinetic . . . delectably precise. -- San Francisco Examiner


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Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony, as well as Caracole, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and Skinned Alive, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America—States of Desire—and Our Paris. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.

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