Edmund White is technically a very skilled writer and he has a wonderful vocabulary. Sentence by sentence this was interesting to read as each sentence is so well crafted. The problem, however, is that the stories White tells are, frankly, a bit dull. I was hoping for a grittier description of life in New York, or perhaps of the intellectual and emotional state of mind of the gay community in 1970's New York City. There are bits of this, but the book more often feels like a Who's Who list of the New York literary scene (White's corner of it, anyway).
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- ISBN13: 9781596914025
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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