Edmund White

Inside a Pearl

My Years in Paris

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Produktbeschreibung

A literary treat: a memoir of Edmund White's years among the cultural and intellectual elite of 1980s Paris

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Paperbacks / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 231199
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 191g
• ISBN-13: 9781408837764
• ISBN-10: 1408837765
• Artikelnr.: 41600914

Autorenporträt

Edmund White was the author of many novels, including A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, A Saint from Texas, and The Humble Lover. His nonfiction included City Boy, Inside a Pearl, The Unpunished Vice, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. He received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. He lived in New York.

Rezensionen

Paris may well be White's pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl ... This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund White . Entertaining and wry, White is worldly-wise and wise Eileen Battersby, Irish Times