In den Sechzigern und Siebzigern war New York eine gefährliche, chaotische und turbulente Stadt. Es war die Stadt von William Burroughs, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe - und Edmund White. Mit schonungsloser Offenheit, mit Witz und...

"City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s" ist eine autobiografische Erzählung von Edmund White, in der er seine Erfahrungen und Erlebnisse in New York City während dieser zwei turbulenten Jahrzehnte beschreibt. Das Buch...

'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...

"Genet: A Biography" von Edmund White ist eine umfassende Darstellung des Lebens und Werkes des französischen Schriftstellers Jean Genet. White zeichnet in dieser Biografie das facettenreiche Leben Genets nach, der als Waise aufwuchs und...

The Unpunished Vice von White, Edmund

"The Beautiful Room Is Empty" von Edmund White ist der zweite Teil einer halb-autobiografischen Trilogie, die das Leben eines jungen schwulen Mannes in Amerika während der 1950er und 1960er Jahre schildert. Der Roman setzt die Geschichte...

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,...

Marcel Proust

A beautiful novel about an unconventional relationship, Jack Holmes and His Friend charts the friendship of Jack Holmes and Will Wright from their arrival in New York on the eve of the wild 60s, over two decades through the first...

I hypothesized a lover who'd take me away . . . I expected him to be able to divine my existence and my need, to intuit that in this darkened room in this country house a fourteen-year-old was waiting for him.In repressive 1950s America,...

______________ 'An epic novel' - Telegraph 'A worldly wise delight' - Observer 'Another brilliant accomplishment from one of the country's most indispensable writers' - Texas Observer ______________ From legendary writer Edmund White, a...

A flâneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the streets he walks - and is in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic. Acclaimed writer Edmund White,...