"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,...

Das Buch "Marcel Proust" von Edmund White ist eine biografische Darstellung des Lebens und Werks des berühmten französischen Schriftstellers Marcel Proust. White, selbst ein angesehener Autor, bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in Prousts...

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...

"Our Young Man" von Edmund White ist ein Roman, der das glamouröse und oft oberflächliche Leben in der Modewelt der 1980er Jahre erkundet. Im Mittelpunkt steht Guy, ein außergewöhnlich gutaussehendes männliches Model aus Frankreich,...

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,...

Die Biographie eines der größten französischen Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts. Genet, der seine Kindheit und Jugend in Erziehungsheimen und Strafanstalten verbrachte, wurde nach einem Vagabunden- und Kriminellendasein zu lebenslangem...

______________ '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,...

When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was forty-three years old, couldn't speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new...

______________ 'Elegant, filthy - and quite possibly the queerest thing you will read all year.' - Guardian 'Intriguing and inventive.' - Electric Literature, "Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year" 'A dizzyingly enticing and...

Following A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work...