Edmund White

The Burning Library: Essays

Book Condition: Used
Publisher: Vintage, 1995-10-31 00:00:00.
ISBN: 0679754741
From the National Book Award honored author of A Previous Life and a master of American literature comes a dazzling collection of 25 years of groundbreaking essays that redefined politics, language, identity, and friendship.

"A testament to White's versatility, his insatiable curiosity about the emergence of gays in modern American life.... Fascinating." --San Francisco Chronicle

Along with his essays of gay experience and desire, this magisterial collection of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons as diverse as Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe and the singer formerly known as Prince. Binding: Trade Paperback 386 pages PublishPlace: NY ISBN: 0-679-75474-1 Size: 12 vo

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