books by Edmund White     books:     Edmund White      David Hockney Portraits Sarah Howgate, Barbara Stern Shapiro Yale University Press, 2006 A Very Personal and Tender Survey of the Works of David Hockney David Hockney is an artist whose works are familiar to everyone, whether from exposure to his many museum shows, his paintings and drawings included in every major survey of contemporary art, to his magical sets for operas such as The Magic Flute, Die Frau Ohne ...             My Lives: An Autobiography Edmund White Ecco, 2006 A Brilliant Memoir What sets this memoir apart from others I've read is the way White chose to write it. By dividing his book into chapters or sections that explore topics that he felt colored the life he's led, I feel that I know more about him than I ever would have had he chosen to ...             Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel Edmund White Ecco, 2007 19th Century Twilight Hotel de Dream, the latest novel from Edmund White, is a well-written exploration of a writer's last days and the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The story's chief protagonist, famed American novelist Stephen Crane, is dying of Tubercolosis ...             The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel Edmund White Vintage, 1994 The Beautiful Room Edmund White's 'Beautiful Room' is a moving, wonderful story, crafted around the late teens to late twenties of the narrator, known only as 'Bunny' to his friend Lou, one of the many lively, memorable characters encountered along the way, as well as Tex, a flaboyant ...             Marcel Proust (Penguin Lives) Edmund White Viking Adult, 1999 Excellent brief biography of Proust Although there is no shortage of books on Proust in English, and no shortage of enormously long biographies, there is a surprising lack of short biographies. Luckily, this excellent little volume by Edmund White fills a major need. While we have major long ...             A Boy's Own Story Edmund White Vintage, 2000 Eloquent, Elegant, Incisive, Provocative What exquisite and marvelous prose! White has mastered the English language in an artful, florid, and elegant manner exceeding the great Nabokov himself. This novel, my first, but by no means last, to read, is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about an ...             Belchamber (New York Review Books Classics) Howard Sturgis NYRB Classics, 2008 Charles Edwin William Augustus Chambers—Marquis and Earl of Belchamber, Viscount Charmington, and Baron St. Edmunds and Chambers—known familiarly as Sainty, is the scion of an ancient English aristocratic family. Behind him stretches a rogues’ gallery of picturesque upper-crust scoundrels. But he is uninterested in riding to ...             The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris Edmund White Bloomsbury USA, 2008 Annoyed By Most Travel Books? Edmund White gives a very different "travel book" in FLANEUR: A STROLL THROUGH THE PARADOXES OF PARIS. If you don't delight in books that compare prices of hotels and restaurants or books in which the author traces the difficulty of restoring and furbishing a fabulous ...             Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel Edmund White Atlas & Co., 2008 The distinguished biographer, novelist, and memoirist Edmund White brings his literary mastery to a new biography of Arthur Rimbaud. Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud led a life that was startlingly short, but just as dramatically eventful and accomplished. Even today, over a century after his death in 1891, his visionary poetry has continued to ...             My Lives: A Memoir (P.S.) Edmund White Harper Perennial, 2007 No one has been more frank, lucid, and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, starting with A Boy's Own Story , White here takes fiction out of his story and delivers the facts of his life in all their shocking and absorbing verity. In My Lives , White shares his ...             Our Paris: Sketches from Memory Edmund White, Hubert Sorin Ecco, 2002 Parisian anecdotes told with American-style intimacy I picked up this little book for a return flight from Paris to LA. It looked like perfect plane reading -- short, gossipy, topical. And although it lived up to each of those expectations, the devastation implicit in the book (and explicit at the end) hit hard. The ...             The Burning Library: Essays Edmund White Vintage, 1995 The Reader in the new world--non fiction. As a struggling writer I find it difficult to consult my creativity in a nurturing yet properly instructive way. One of the main difficulties is finding the right literary setting to allow my ideas to flourish (or at least a place to plant them). Until I read The ...             Chaos: A Novella and Stories Edmund White Running Press, 2007 The Pleasures of His Company Edmund White remains one of the reigning masters of committing the English language into models of communication in his intelligent, witty, wise, and compassionate novels. While some critics and admirers tend to place CHAOS: A NOVELLA AND STORIES in a lesser important ...             The Farewell Symphony Edmund White Vintage, 1998 Radiant And Poignant Wow being a gay male must be rough, so I can't go there. I found Edmund's so called "ramblings" as described by many reviewers to be beautifully written and real. Yes, the book was a bit hard to read and get through, but I found it poignant yet distressing. Most of his ...             Separate Rooms Pier Vittorio Tondelli Five Star, 2005 Tearfully beautiful! Beautiful book! Simply heart-wrenchingly beautiful! What a precious little gem! I keep returning to search for another book by the author, even though I know he's dead... I get angry at him that he died before writing another... I guess it is one of those unique ...          products you might be interested in search for books autobiography, beautiful, belchamber, paradoxes, portraits, symphony      geepe.com    web we recommend The Beautiful Room randomly chosen book: A Rare Breed of Love: The True Story of Baby and the Mission She Inspired ...