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A Saint from Texas by Edmund White
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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
Hotel de Dream by Edmund White
49.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 b ...Show more
Inside a Pearl - My Years in Paris by Edmund White
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
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
Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White
29.99 NZD
36.99 (18% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Many straight men and gay men are best friends, but if the phenomenon is an urban commonplace it has never been treated before as the focus of a major novel. Jack Holmes is in love, but the man he loves never shares his bed. The other men Jack sleeps with never last long and he dallies with several ...Show more
My Lives by Edmund White
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A moving, hilarious, shocking and enlightening memoir from Edmund White, bestselling author of A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room is Empty.No one has been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels ...Show more
My Lives by Edmund White
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
No one has ever been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 195 ...Show more
Our Young Man by Edmund White
29.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Rimbaud : The double life of a rebel by Edmund White
50.00 NZD
55.00 (9% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Rimbaud, among the greatest of French poets, notorious for his life as well as his works, is evoked by a hugely distinguished biographer. Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud led a life that was startlingly short, yet dramatically eventful and accomplished. His long poem "Un Saison d'Enfer" (1873) and his co ...Show more
The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The kind of tour guide you really want - a unique and ecclectic view of Paris through the eyes of a fierce and witty intellect.
The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
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