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Arts And Letters

The well published author and regular contributor to the New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and Vanity Fair profiles some of the most interesting writers and artists of the modern era, including Marcel Proust, David Geffen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Michel Foucault, Andy Warhol, and Allen Ginsberg, among others.

By Edmund White

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9781573441957 | Cleis Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The well published author and regular contributor to the New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and Vanity Fair profiles some of the most interesting writers and artists of the modern era, including Marcel Proust, David Geffen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Michel Foucault, Andy Warhol, and Allen Ginsberg, among others.

Paperback:

9781573442480 | Cleis Pr, August 10, 2006, cover price $15.95

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

A young gay man experiences the pain of growing out of adolescence and struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality and his desire for power as society moves from the constrained 1950s to the expressive 1960s. Reprint.

By Edmund White

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9780679755401 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1994), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The narrator experiences the pains of growing out of adolescence and struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality and desire for power as society moves from the constrained 1950s to the expressive 1960s

9780345351517 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1989), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: The hero experienced the pains of growing out of adolescence and struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality and desire for power as society moves from the constrained 1950s to the expressive 1960s

The Beautiful Room Is Empty/91124

The hero experienced the pains of growing out of adolescence and struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality and desire for power as society moves from the constrained 1950s to the expressive 1960s

By Edmund White

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Hardcover:

9780394564449 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1988, cover price $4.98 | About this edition: The hero experienced the pains of growing out of adolescence and struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality and desire for power as society moves from the constrained 1950s to the expressive 1960s

The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel

By Edmund White

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Miscellaneous:

9780307764461 | Vintage Books, September 8, 2010, cover price $14.00

A Boy's Own Story

At home, in school, and on the streets, a homosexual teenager moves through comic sexual experiments, isolation, fear, and exciting expectations toward an escape from childhood and a firm sense of self.

By Edmund White

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Hardcover:

9780679642541, titled "A Boy's Own Story" | Modern Library, May 1, 2002, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: At home, in school, and on the streets, a homosexual teenager moves through comic sexual experiments, isolation, fear, and exciting expectations toward an escape from childhood and a firm sense of self.

9780525241287, titled "A Boy's Own Story" | Dutton Childrens Books, September 1, 1982, cover price $13.95 | also contains Bittersuss - Davor & Danach | About this edition: At home, in school, and on the streets, a homosexual teenager moves through comic sexual experiments, isolation, fear, and exciting expectations toward an escape from childhood and a firm sense of self

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9780143114840, titled "A Boy's Own Story" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 24, 2009), cover price $16.00

9780375707407, titled "A Boy's Own Story" | Vintage Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: At home, in school, and on the streets, a homosexual teenager growing up in the 1950s moves through comic sexual experiments, isolation, fear, and exciting expectations toward an escape from childhood and a firm sense of self, in this classic coming-of-age novel.

9780452273009, titled "A Boy's Own Story" | Reissue edition (Plume, December 1, 1994), cover price $12.95

9780452263529, titled "A Boy's Own Story" | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, September 1, 1983), cover price $10.00

A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

By Edmund White

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9781509813865 | Pan Macmillan, January 1, 2004, cover price $15.45

The Burning Library: Essays

A collection of essays chronicles changes in gay life from the 1960s to the present and shares thoughts on Truman Capote, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe, and other literary and artistic figures

By Edmund White

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Hardcover:

9780679434757 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays chronicles changes in gay life from the 1960s to the present and shares thoughts on Truman Capote, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe, and other literary and artistic figures

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9780679754749 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The award-winning author of Genet collects twenty-five years of essay writing that considers gay mores, sexuality, and culture from the Stonewall period through the age of AIDS.

Miscellaneous:

9780307764539 | Vintage Books, September 8, 2010, cover price $17.95

Caracole

Gabriel, a teenager, is being introduced to the rites of adulthood, including sexual desire, social intrigue, and political power while his young lover, Angelica, is following a parallel course through life

By Edmund White

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Hardcover:

9780525242819 | E P Dutton, September 1, 1985, cover price $17.95

Paperback:

9780679764168 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Gabriel, a teenager, is being introduced to the rites of adulthood, including sexual desire, social intrigue, and political power while his young lover, Angelica, is following a parallel course through life

9780452258815 | New Amer Library, September 1, 1986, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Gabriel, a teenager, is being introduced to the rites of adulthood, including sexual desire, social intrigue, and political power while his young lover, Angelica, is following a parallel course through life

Miscellaneous:

9780307764515 | Vintage Books, September 8, 2010, cover price $15.00

Chaos: A Novella and Stories

An older resident in a community of mostly young people, a man whose sexuality was shaped by the liberated 1970s struggles with the more demure values of the twenty-first century, in a novella that is accompanied by the short stories 'Give it Up for Billy' and 'A Good Sport.' By the author of A Boy's Own Story.

By Edmund White

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9780786720057 | Running Pr Book Pub, May 21, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: An older resident in a community of mostly young people, a man whose sexuality was shaped by the liberated 1970s struggles with the more demure values of the twenty-first century, in a novella that is accompanied by the short stories 'Give it Up for Billy' and 'A Good Sport.

City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s

By Edmund White

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Hardcover:

9781596914025 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 29, 2009, cover price $26.00

The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis

By Adam Mars-Jones and Edmund White

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9780452260702 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, April 1, 1988), cover price $8.95

David Hockney Portraits

Examines David Hockney's portraits in all media - painting, drawing, photocollage and prints - and is produced in collaboration with the artist. This book illustrates not only the range and innovation of his creative practice but also the circular nature of his subjects and artistic preoccupations.

By Mark Glazebrook, Sarah Howgate, Marco Livingstone, Barbara Stern Shapiro and Edmund White

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9781855143753 | Gardners Books, September 22, 2006, cover price $62.65 | About this edition: Examines David Hockney's portraits in all media - painting, drawing, photocollage and prints - and is produced in collaboration with the artist.

9780300117547 | Yale Univ Pr, March 28, 2006, cover price $80.00

Elizabeth Peyton

By Edmund White (contributor)

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Hardcover:

9780847839094 | Bilingual edition (Rizzoli Intl Pubns, April 24, 2012), cover price $100.00

The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction

Edmund White introduces this collection with a thoughtful and forthright description of his personal experience of gay literature and provides a fascinating historical and psychological context for the stories. Contributors include Henry James, Christopher Isherwood, Gore Vidal, David Leavitt, Paul Bowles, and others.

By Edmund White (editor)

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9780571144723, titled "Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction" | Faber & Faber, October 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Edmund White introduces this collection with a thoughtful and forthright description of his personal experience of gay literature and provides a fascinating historical and psychological context for the stories.

Paperback:

9780571129089 | Faber & Faber, October 1, 1992, cover price $18.95

Fanny: A Fiction

A fictional account based on the life of Fanny Wright is presented from the perspective of social critic and biographer Frances Trollope, who remembers young Wright's utopian idealism, move to mid-nineteenth-century America, and witness to the nation's political turmoil. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

By Edmund White

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9780060004842 | Ecco Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A fictional account based on the life of Fanny Wright is presented from the perspective of social critic and biographer Frances Trollope, who remembers young Wright's utopian idealism and move to mid-nineteenth century America.

Paperback:

9780060004859 | Reprint edition (Perennial, November 1, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A fictional account based on the life of Fanny Wright is presented from the perspective of social critic and biographer Frances Trollope, who remembers young Wright's utopian idealism, move to mid-nineteenth-century America, and witness to the nation's political turmoil.

The Farewell Symphony

By Edmund White

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Miscellaneous:

9780307764478 | Vintage Books, September 8, 2010, cover price $17.00

The Farewell Symphony: A Novel

A fictional account of one man's struggle to succeed as a writer and to discover what it means to be gay offers a journey of remembrance that ranges from the 1960s to the present day. By the author of A Boy's Own Story. 30,000 first printing. NYT.

By Edmund White

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9780679434771 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A fictional account of one man's struggle to succeed as a writer and to discover what it means to be gay offers a journey of remembrance that ranges from the 1960s to the present

Paperback:

9780679754763 | Vintage Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A fictional account of one man's struggle to succeed as a writer and to discover what it means to be gay offers a journey of remembrance that ranges from the 1960s to the present

Fever Vision: The Life And Works of Coleman Dowell

By Eugene Hayworth and Edmund White (contributor)

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9781564784575 | Dalkey Archive Pr, January 1, 2007, cover price $24.95

Fire Island Pines: Polaroids 1978-1983

By Tom Bianchi (other contributor) and Edmund White (introduced by)

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9788862082709 | Damiani Editore, May 31, 2013, cover price $50.00

The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris

A collection of essays explores the unfamiliar byways of the City of Lights, taking readers into virtually unknown sections of Paris as the author shares his observations on the city's bookshops and boutiques, monuments and palaces, eateries and history.

By Edmund White

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Hardcover:

9781632863775 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 13, 2015), cover price $18.00

9780783895826 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, October 1, 2001), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays explores the unfamiliar byways of the City of Lights, taking readers into virtually unknown sections of Paris as the author shares his observations on the city's bookshops and boutiques, monuments and palaces, eateries and history.

9781582341354 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, March 1, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays by the acclaimed author of A Boy's Own Story explores the unfamiliar byways of the City of Lights, taking readers into virtually unknown sections of Paris as he shares his observations and meditations on the city's bookshops and boutiques, monuments and palaces, eateries and history.

9780747549574 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, February 19, 2001, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through a city without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the place and in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic.

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9781582342122 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, April 1, 2008, cover price $15.00

9780747596875 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, March 17, 2008, cover price $14.40

9780425041086, titled "Legion" | Berkley Pub Group, June 1, 1979, cover price $1.75 | also contains Legion

Forgetting Elena

The narrator tries to identify and understand the elaborate manners of a wealthy island community, but just as he begins to understand them, Elena tries to convince him to break with convention

By Edmund White

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9780679755739 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1994), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The narrator tries to identify and understand the elaborate manners of a wealthy island community, but just as he begins to understand them, Elena tries to convince him to break with convention

9780345358622 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, May 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A young man who suffers from a loss of memory searches for clues to his identity and apparent involvement with a beautiful woman without letting anyone know he does not remember

Forgetting Elena: A Novel

By Edmund White

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9780307764508 | Vintage Books, September 8, 2010, cover price $15.00

Fresh Men: New Voices In Gay Fiction

A wide-ranging collection of gay fiction presents twenty stories covering the pains of 'coming out' and issues of identity, family drama, sex, love, and AIDS, presenting a broad palette of literary genres and approaches. Original.

By Donald Weise (editor) and Edmund White

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9780786714216 | Running Pr Book Pub, October 5, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A wide-ranging collection of gay fiction presents twenty stories covering the pains of 'coming out' and issues of identity, family drama, sex, love, and AIDS, presenting a broad palette of literary genres and approaches.

Genet: A Biography

Traces the life of the controversial French writer, looks at his novels and plays, and discusses the major themes of his work

By Edmund White

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9780394571713 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traces the life of the controversial French writer, looks at his novels and plays, and discusses the major themes of his work

Paperback:

9780679754794 | Vintage Books, October 4, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Traces the life of the controversial French writer, looks at his novels and plays, and discusses the major themes of his work

Miscellaneous:

9780307764492 | Vintage Books, September 8, 2010, cover price $26.95

Herbert List: The Monograph

Assembling some of the most striking images from the famous photographer, this homage to List shows the post-war ruins of Munich and other powerful themes, through the eyes of a great artist.

By Matthias Harder (editor), Herbert List, Gunter Metken, Ulrich Pohlmann, Max Scheler (editor), Bruce Weber, Edmund White and Wilfried Wiegand

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9781580930581 | Monacelli Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Assembling some of the most striking images from the famous photographer, this homage to List shows the post-war ruins of Munich and other powerful themes, through the eyes of a great artist.

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