The Farewell Symphony - Softcover

White, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099768011 ISBN 13: 9780099768012

Publisher: Vintage, 1998

Synopsis

In his two most celebrated novels, A BOYS OWN STORY and THE BEAUTIFUL ROOM IS EMPTY, Edmond White charted the story of an American homo-sexual through the 1960s and 1970s. They received huge acclaim, and the third in the sequence - which covers the 1980s - is long-awaited. In THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY Edmund White has drawn together all his experience of gay life in the 80s and transformed them into a wonder-fully witty and moving novel. Set in Europe and the US, and including portraits (thinly disguised) of some of the key figures of the time, THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY opens up a world which feels painfully and fascinatingly real.

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Review:

"A work of singular accomplishment" (Sunday Times)

"A writer blessed with a more elusive gift, and it should probably be called wisdom" (Daily Telegraph)

"Disturbing... but with the kind of salvation that genuinely good writing can give" (Observer)

About the Author:

EDMUND WHITE is the author of three memoirs about Paris--My Lives, City Boy, and Inside a Pearl. His many novels include the autobiographical A Boy's Own Story and, most recently, Jack Holmes & His Friend. He is also known as a literary biographer and essayist. White lives in New York and teaches at Princeton University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0099768011
• ISBN 13: 9780099768012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512