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Edmund White - City Boy: My Life in New York...
Released: 04/01/2010
Bloomsbury
Edmund White's second autobiography is set during the cultural revolutions of 1960s and 1970s New York. Here he gives a deeply personal and candid account of his coming-of-age as a writer and as a homosexual - along with his scandalous encounters with some of the greatest intellectuals and artists on the scene.
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The New Yorker“A keen appreciation for the varieties of affection...” Lively sketches of James Merrill, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, and others are occasionally sharp as well as fond, but White’s candor extends equally to his own doubts and failures...
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70 %
Financial Times“the political and philosophical digressions are as elegant as ever...” In his 1985 novel Caracole, the leading character says he is planning a book entitled Messy Lives. Well, White has finally written it; and all one can say is, oh, what a glorious – and productive – mess.
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The Times“Cultural experimentation and gothic sleaze...” This enjoyably bitchy memoir by the American writer and cultural institution follows his wider-ranging My Lives (2005) and lays bare the striving world of writing, art and the media in an already distant New York of 30 or 40 years ago...
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The Telegraph“An old-fashioned period piece about a fascinating period...” I wanted to like the result more than I did. Too often I found myself wondering if he had mistaken candour for truth or if his characters were one-trick ponies overly defined by their sexuality.
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The New York Times“An open-throttled tour of New York City during the bad old days...” “City Boy” may lack some of the fineness and intensity of “My Lives,” which remains the essential Edmund White memoir, the one to read first. But this one is salty and buttery, for sure...
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90%
Publishers Weekly“A vast tapestry of Manhattan memories...” White writes with a simple, fluid style, and beneath his patina of pain, a refreshing honesty emerges. This is a brilliant recreation of an era, rich in revels, revolutions and “leather boys leading the human tidal wave"...
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