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Set in Europe and America, these eight stories (many of them autobiographical) explore the ways we make sense of personal experience: the workings of desire, in youth and later in life; the yearning for intimacy and love; the power of beauty and jealousy; and the unpredictable effects of illness and loss. In "Pyrography" a gay adolescent is torn between his sexual desires and his longing for acceptance as he goes on a camping trip with two straight male friends. An American in Crete finds a new reason for living after the death of his lover in "An Oracle." "Watermarked" is a moving tribute to a beautiful young actor, the subject of an early passion. And, perhaps the funniest story in the collection, "His Biographer" deals with the ludicrous experience of being the living subject of a biography; it brilliantly stages the meeting of Old World sophistication and New World political correctness.
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"Wrenching, glorious, seductive . . . urgent and kinetic . . . delectably precise."--San Francisco Examiner
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Edmund White has taught literature and creative writing at Yale, Johns Hopkins, New York University and Columbia, and was a full professor of English at Brown.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date1995
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