Edmund White

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.

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

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.

From the legendary author Edmund White a stunning revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex

A middle aged American works out in a Paris gym- an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. As they dash between Bohemian suppers and glittering salons, all they have to deal with are comic clashes of cultures, of ages, of temperaments. But there is sadness in Julien''s past and a grim cloud on the horizon. Soon, with increasing desperation, their quest for health and happiness drives them to Rome, to the shuttered squares of Venice, to Key West in the sun, Montreal in the snow and Providence in the rain - landscapes soaked with feeling which lead, in the end, to the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara. The Married Man is alive with wit, full of extraordinary characters (including an anarchic basset hound) and electric sexuality. But above all, it is a love story. Haunting, aching, stripped of sentiment, it carries the reader -- like Austin himself - into untravelled countries, over the rim of love and loss.

The protagonist of this story is a homosexual, and his story is of a life in which homosexuality is a shaping force. Set in the American midwest of the 1950s, the book tells how the frustrated 15-year-old, whom the world would despise if it knew him, becomes the guardian of public morals.

Austin is an American furniture scholar living in Paris. He is pushing fifty, loveless, drifting. One day at the gym he meets Julien: French, an architect, much younger and married. Against every expectation, this chance acquaintance matures into profound romance. As the two men dash between bohemian suppers and sophisticated salons, their only impediments are the easily surmountable and comic clashes of culture, age and temperament. Inevitably, however, Julien''s past catches up with them. With increasing desperation, in a quest to save health and happiness, they move from the shuttered squares of Venice to sun-drenched Key West, to Montreal in the snow and Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis. Haunting and deeply moving, The Married Man carries the reader along with its protagonists into uncharted emotional territory, over the rim of love and loss. It is Edmund White''s finest novel.

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.

Tras dieciséis años en la capital, Edmund White atrae al lector hacia los fascinantes recovecos de su París personal y nos presenta un retrato de la Ciudad de la Luz desde la perspectiva de un caminante ocioso, alguien que deambula sin proposito aparente, pero que sintoniza en secreto con la historia del lugar, y en secreto va en busca de aventuras, ya sean esteticas o eroticas. Asi, el paseante vagabundea por las calles y avenidas y a lo largo de los muelles, por unos rincones y unas aceras de Paris practicamente desconocidos para los visitantes e incluso para los propios parisinos.

When the narrator of White''s poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprisingand populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrinkThe Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age. "With intelligence, candor, humorand angerWhite explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."Washington Post book World