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Inside a Pearl - My Years in Paris by Edmund White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | 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 AUD
Category: 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
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
$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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'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
Proust by Edmund White
$21.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This literary biography of Marcel Proust provides readers with an insight into the recluse who lay all night long in his cork-lined room, obsessively rewriting his one massive work. It also shows the yearning lonely boy, the brilliant wit - and the miserably closeted homosexual.
Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel by Edmund White
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This book features renowned author and critic Edmund White on Arthur Rimbaud, notorious rebel, poet and lover of Verlaine. Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) died young but his extraordinary poetry continues to influence and inspire - fans include Dylan, Jim Morrison, Patti Smith. His long poem ...Show more
Rimbaud : The double life of a rebel by Edmund White
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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
$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 Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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 Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the streets he walks - and is in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic. Acclaimed writer Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the avenues an ...Show more