Edmund White

The Loves of My Life (MP3-Download)

A Sex Memoir Ungekürzte Lesung. 383 Min.
Sprecher: Froomkin, Joel

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloomsbury presents The Loves of My Life by the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. Read by Joel Froomkin. "In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White's love of sex makes us proud to be human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving (and very funny!) novel." —John Irving "A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom." —Robert Jones, Jr. I'm at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them—for me it would be thousands of sex partners. The 85-year-old "paterfamilias of queer literature" (New York Times) recounts the sixty-plus years of sexual escapades that have inspired his many masterpieces. He explores the sex he had with other closeted boys of the 50s Midwest, with women as a young man trying to be straight, the sex he's paid for and been paid for, sex during the Stonewall and HIV eras, and in the age of the apps. Through tales of transactional sex, mutual admiration, open relationships, domination, submission, love, and loss, he paints an indelible portrait of queer history in America and abroad in a way only someone who has lived through it can. Written with White's signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781639733743
• Artikelnr.: 72202238

Autorenporträt

Edmund White is 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 includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, The Unpunished Vice, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. He has 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 lives in New York.

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White once estimated he'd had three thousand partners . . . and his prose here, as ever, is so redoubtably stylish that I almost wish he'd enshrined every last tryst in print . . . Line for line, I can't recall the last time I enjoyed reading anything so much.