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A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
$25.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst. It was his power that stupefied me and made me regard my knowledge as nothing more than hired cleverness he might choose to show off at a dinner party. A Boy's Own Story traces an unnamed narrator's coming-of-age during the 1950s. Beset by aloof parents, a crue ...Show more
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
First published in 1982, White's semi-autobiographical novel became an instant classic. It is regarded as one of the most searing and glorious evocations of a child on the brink of maturity.Set on the hot streets and cool lawns of 50s America, A Boy's Own Story is a troubled elegy to adolescence. The na ...Show more
A Previous Life by Edmund White
$32.14 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Reading Level: very good
'Elegant, erudite, raunchy and fun' Andrew Sean Greer 'The best book in Edmund White's long and extraordinary career' Benjamin moser 'Fresh and inventive and wise' Rebecca Makkai A daring, category-confounding and ruthlessly funny novel from Edmund White, exploring polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and ...Show more
A Saint from Texas by Edmund White
$32.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Reading Level: near fine
From 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, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tra ...Show more
A Saint from Texas by Edmund White
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From 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, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tra ...Show more
City Boy - My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s by Edmund White
$39.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Reading Level: very good
In the 1970s Paris had fashion, London had the theatre, Berlin had a small painting scene, but New York had all these cultural attainments and more - a vibrant intellectual life. In a decade when New York City was on the verge of bankruptcy, when local headlines were dominated by urban scandal, corrupti ...Show more
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story: The Graphic Novel by Edmund White
$69.98 NZD
Category: No Category
A landmark American novel, hailed by the New York Times as J.D. Salinger crossed with Oscar Wilde, is masterfully reimagined as a timeless graphic novel.A Boy's Own Story is a now-classic coming-of-age story, but with a twist: the young protagonist is growing up gay during one of the most oppressive per ...Show more
Fanny: A Fiction by Edmund White
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
This is a marvellously spirited, hilarious and touching historical novel - a spoof biography, written by the aging Fanny Trollope, of her friend the Scottish radical and feminist Fanny Wright (born in Dundee and brought up partly in Glasgow). From the start, our narrator is enthralled, but also baffled, ...Show more
Hotel de Dream by Edmund White
$50.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Reading Level: very good
Stephen Crane is writing a new story, and it may be his last. The year is 1900. The famous author of The Red Badge of Courage is travelling to a Black Forest clinic in search of a cure for the tuberculosis that threatens his life. He dictates to his wife, Cora, the story of 'The Painted Boy', inspired b ...Show more
Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White
$36.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Reading Level: very good
Many straight men and gay men are best friends, but if the phenomenon is an urban commonplace it has never been treated before as the focus of a major novel. Jack Holmes is in love, but the man he loves never shares his bed. The other men Jack sleeps with never last long and he dallies with sever ...Show more
My Lives by Edmund White
$29.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+
No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 195 ...Show more
My Lives by Edmund White
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
A moving, hilarious, shocking and enlightening memoir from Edmund White, bestselling author of A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room is Empty.No one has been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels ...Show more
