An insightful account of the key role reading has played in the life of literary icon Edmund White

"The Stonewall Reader" ist eine Anthologie, die von der New York Public Library zusammengestellt wurde und sich auf die Ereignisse rund um den Stonewall-Aufstand im Jahr 1969 konzentriert. Diese Sammlung umfasst persönliche Berichte,...

The "extraordinary novel" (The New York Times Book Review) about one boy's coming-of-age during the 1950s-and one of the most groundbreaking portrayals of gay life in American fiction "The best American narrative of sexual awakening...

"Jack Holmes and His Friend" von Edmund White ist ein Roman, der die komplexe Freundschaft zwischen zwei Männern über mehrere Jahrzehnte hinweg verfolgt. Die Geschichte beginnt in den 1960er Jahren in New York City und dreht sich um Jack...

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...

The Unpunished Vice von White, Edmund

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,...

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...