Edmund White

 Historia de un chico es una obra maestra, una novela de iniciación y un clásico de la literatura gay. En el conservador Medio Oeste de Estados Unidos en la segunda posguerra, el narrador, un joven d

E'la storia tormentata, ma al tempo stesso animata da episodi divertenti e sfrenati, di un amore omosessuale, quello tra il protagonista, l'autore stesso, e il suo amico francese Brice, destinato a morire di Aids nel 1994. Ma e anche la storia di una conquista, sua e degli omosessulai americani, che alterna la dolcezza triste dei ricordi e il rimpianto per la scomparsa dell'amico, a episodi importanti della sua giovinezza, che coincide con la presa di coscienza del movimento gay negli Stati Uniti, come la celebre sommossa dello Stonewall del Greenwich Village di New York.

Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund Whiteas trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boyas Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The bookas unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to seek out works of art and literature as solaceaand to uncover new relationships in the struggle to embrace his own sexuality. Lyrical and poignant, with powerful evocations of shame and yearning, this is an American literary treasure.

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 by a real-life encounter with a fifteen-year-old newsboy, Elliott, one wintry day in the Bowery. In the story Elliott is both impressionable and elusive. He finds himself the object of the hopeless affections of Theodore, the staid middle-aged banker who sets him up in an apartment and visits him every day. Elliott frequents the Fairy Saloons of turn-of-the-century Manhattan, home to an outrageous, hedonistic group of raggle-taggle transvestites. Slowly, Theodore is drawn into a seedy underworld of secrets and betrayal that endangers their love, their homes, and their lives. The story grows as Crane's strength deteriorates, and the outcome of the story becomes as critical as the author's life itself. Atmospheric and tender, Hotel de Dream is a deftly layered novel of longing, both gay and straight.

At once hilarious, sexy and heartbreaking, Chaos is a new novella and collection of short stories from hugely acclaimed writer Edmund White.

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 stories of urban scandal, corruption and violence, the city flourished as never before as the centre of 'uncompromising high culture masquerading as slouching, grinning gee-whiz - Wallace Stevens in sneakers.' The representative figures of this New York were Susan Sontag, Jasper Johns, George Balanchine and more - fierce cultural arbiters, 'martyr's to art', living in a city that was still obsessed with the hierarchy of the arts and the idea of the Pure. From Isherwood to Mapplethorpe, Borges to Foucault, Brodkey to Burroughs, Edmund White knew them all, and writes about them in City Boy with love, affection, insight and often biting wit. It is a fascinating, personal journey through the vibrant and explosive New York of the 70's with wonderful sideshows in San Francisco and a Venice presided over by the radiant Peggy Guggenheim, and it bounces from literary infighting at the New Yorker to erotic...CONTINÚA

Una breve biograf#a del gran poeta simbolista franc#s. Adem#s de excelente novelista, Edmund White es un agudo ensayista y bi#grafo. En este libro cuenta la apasionante, m#tica y turbulenta vida de Arthur Rimabud, el gran poeta simbolista franc#s, disc#pulo de Baudelaire, notorio cr#pula, compa#ero sentimental de Paul Verlaine y, en definitiva, enfant terrible de las letras francesas. White analiza y reconstruye los avatares biogr#ficos del precoz poeta, desde su infancia y #poca estudiantil, cuando en el colegio fue ya laureado en composici#n latina, hasta la creaci#n de las dos obras que cambiaron el rumbo de la poes#a europea: Las iluminaciones y Una temporada en el infierno. Entre versos, borracheras y esc#ndalos transcurri# su corta vida, que termin# en Marsella con treinta y siete a#os, despu#s de haber abandonado la literatura a los veinte y haberse dedicado, entre otras ocupaciones peregrinas, al tr#fico de armas en Etiop#a. En este op#sculo, White nos ofrece un retrato #ntimo y perspicaz sobre el hombre que se escond#a tras la m#scara del poeta maldito.

Una gran novela sobre un gran escritor. El protagonista de esta bell#sima novela es Stephen Crane, autor de La roja insignia del valor, uno de los cl#sicos de culto de la literatura norteamericana de finales del siglo XIX. Crane muri# a los veintiocho a#os, cuando empezaba a alumbrar su brillante obra narrativa. Edmund White cuenta aqu# los #ltimos d#as de vida del escritor, cuando, convaleciente de tuberculosis, le dicta a su esposa un relato sobre la obsesi#n de un rico banquero por un chico de quince a#os en el Manhattan finisecular. La obsesi#n por terminar el relato y la lenta agon#a de Crane se entreveran con el crep#sculo del siglo XIX que se desmaya sobre las calles de Nueva York y las ventanas de la memoria. Edmund White, uno de los autores norteamericanos m#s reconocidos de las #ltimas d#cadas, construye en esta novela una historia imperecedera sobre el arte, el deseo y la muerte.

This novel revolves around a gay adolescent boy coming of age in the 1950s and is based, in part, on Edmund White's own life.

In White's superb telling, Proust is shown in all his fascinating eccentricity -- not just the recluse obsessively rewriting his one massive work through the night, but the yearning, lonely boy; the dazzling wit and darling of Parisian salons; the seeker of fame; , and the unhappy homosexual whose troubled grappling with his sexual identity this book is the first to explore. A masterly blend of the life and the work, here is a gem to be treasured not only by literati and students, but by anyone looking for an introduction to an enduring genius.

Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey or remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man. His witty, conversational narrative transports us from the '60s to the near-present, from starkly erotic scenes in the back rooms of New York clubs to episodes of rarefied hilarity in the salons of Paris to moments of family truth in the American Midwest. Along the way, a breathtaking variety of personal connections -- and near misses -- slowly builds an awareness of the transformative power of genuine friendship, of love and loss, culminating in an indelible experience with a dying man. And as the flow of memory carries us across time, space and society, one man's magnificently realized story grows to encompass an entire generation.

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 Island's gay community and one of New York's top male models, Guy is gliding his way to riches that are a world away from his modest provincial upbringing back home in France. Like some modern-day Dorian Gray he seems untouched by time: the decades pass, fashions change, yet his beauty remains as transcendent and captivating as ever. Such looks cannot help but bring him adoration. From sweet yet pathetic Fred to the wealthy and masochistic Baron, from the acerbic and cynical Pierre-Georges to Andre, fabricating Dali fakes and hurtling towards prison and the abyss, all are in some way fixated on him. In return for the devotion and expensive gifts they lavish on him, he plays with unswerving loyalty whatever role they project onto him: unattainable idol, passionate lover, malleable client. But just as the years are catching up on his smooth skin and perfect body, so his way of life is closing in on him and destroying the men he loves. Edmund White has in Our Young Man created some of the richest representations of gay male identity, from the disco era to the age of AIDs. What links them all is the allure and enchantment they find in beauty. Revelling in its magic, Our Young Man nonetheless slips beneath the seductive surface to examine its dangerous depths, exploring its power to fascinate, enslave and deceive. Mesmerising, blackly comic, and delicately crafted, this is an exquisite novel from a contemporary master.

Una gran novela sobre un gran escritor. El protagonista de esta bell#sima novela es Stephen Crane, autor de La roja insignia del valor, uno de los cl#sicos de culto de la literatura norteamericana de finales del siglo XIX. Crane muri# a los veintiocho a#os, cuando empezaba a alumbrar su brillante obra narrativa. Edmund White cuenta aqu# los #ltimos d#as de vida del escritor, cuando, convaleciente de tuberculosis, le dicta a su esposa un relato sobre la obsesi#n de un rico banquero por un chico de quince a#os en el Manhattan finisecular. La obsesi#n por terminar el relato y la lenta agon#a de Crane se entreveran con el crep#sculo del siglo XIX que se desmaya sobre las calles de Nueva York y las ventanas de la memoria. Edmund White, uno de los autores norteamericanos m#s reconocidos de las #ltimas d#cadas, construye en esta novela una historia imperecedera sobre el arte, el deseo y la muerte.

Una monumental y brillante biografía, la del escritor francés Jean Genet. El autor de Las criadas fue un genial novelista, marcado por su tumultuosa vida como vagabundo, ladrón, prostituto y homosexual. El escritor que deslumbró a Jean Cocteau y Jean Paul Sarter retratado con luminoso detalle.

A quirky, dazzling fiction about the lives, loves and battles of two extraordinary 19th century women.

A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France's most notorious writers. Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet's experiences in the worlds of crime, homosexuality, politics, and high culture, and gives a compelling analysis of Genet's plays, novels, and essays. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.