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A Previous Life by Edmund White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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 Previous Life by Edmund White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A daring, category-confounding, and ruthlessly funny novel from National Book Award honored author Edmund White that explores polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and love.Sicilian aristocrat and musician, Ruggero, and his younger American wife, Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write the ...Show more
A Saint from Texas by Edmund White
$29.99 AUD
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
Inside a Pearl My Years in Paris by Edmund White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Edmund White was forty-three years old when he moved to Paris in 1983. He spoke no French and knew just two people in the entire city, but soon discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. White fell passionately in love with Paris, its beauty in the half-light and eternal mists; i ...Show more
Marcel Proust - A Life by Edmund White
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Lives Ser.
If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind Remembrance of Things Past, it is Edmund White, himself an award- winning writer for whom Marcel Proust has long been an obsession. White introduces us not only to the recluse endlessly rewriting his one massive ...Show more
Our Young Man by Edmund White
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Has everyone always been in love with you? Of course they have, who am I kidding? What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships' New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart is Guy. The darling of Fire Is ...Show more
Our Young Man by Edmund White
$19.98 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Has everyone always been in love with you? Of course they have, who am I kidding? What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships' New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart is Guy. The darling of Fire Isl ...Show more
The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Writer and the City
A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through city streets in search of adventure and fulfillment. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Paris ...Show more
The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An insightful account of the key role reading has played in the life of literary icon Edmund WhiteEdmund White made his name as a writer, but he remembers his life through the books he read. For White, each momentous occasion came with books to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up ...Show more
The Unpunished Vice - A Life of Reading by Edmund White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader. Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened ...Show more
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