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A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst. It was his power that stupefied me and made me regard my knowledge as nothing more than hired cleverness he might choose to show off at a dinner party. A Boy's Own Story traces an unnamed narrator's coming-of-age during the 1950s. Beset by aloof parents, a crue ...Show more
A Previous Life by Edmund White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male 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: Gay & Bi Male 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
A Saint from Texas by Edmund White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male 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
Arts and Letters by Edmund White
$10.00 AUD
$42.99 (76% off)
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
A dazzling collection of profiles and interviews by the preeminent American cultural essayist of our time. In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best-selling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good humor to illuminate some of the most influential writers, artis ...Show more
Arts and Letters by Edmund White
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Best-selling novelist, memoirist, and biographer Edmund White displays his sharp wit and boundless erudition in 37 portraits of the writers, artists, and cultural icons who have captured his curiosity and imagination for the last 20 years. White is as compelling as he is unpretentious in these stori ...Show more
Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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 ...Show more
Chaos by Edmund White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
What happens when a life implodes? When a respected older man, a product of the liberated 1970s, is incapable of cleaning up his act for the twenty-first century? When he pursues sex with a rabidity his body and his reputation can no longer sustain? In this collection, which features two new, previously ...Show more
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s by Edmund White
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: From
In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and ...Show more
Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story: The Graphic Novel by Edmund White
$64.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
A landmark American novel, hailed by the New York Times as J.D. Salinger crossed with Oscar Wilde, is masterfully reimagined as a timeless graphic novel. A Boy's Own Story is a now-classic coming-of-age story, but with a twist: the young protagonist is growing up gay during one of the most oppressive p ...Show more
Hotel De Dream by Edmund White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The famed writer Stephen Crane is travelling to a German clinic in search of a cure for the tuberculosis that threatens his life. Knowing it may be his last chance, he dictates the story of 'The Painted Boy', inspired by a real-life encounter. But as the story delves into the seedy underworld of turn-of ...Show more
Inside a Pearl My Years in Paris by Edmund White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
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