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Edmund White
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born
January 13, 1940
in The United States
gender
male
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A Boy's Own Story
   3.68 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
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1982
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19 editions
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The Beautiful Room is Empty
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1988
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
3.65 avg rating — 472 ratings
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2001
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The Farewell Symphony
3.87 avg rating — 246 ratings
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The Married Man
3.67 avg rating — 260 ratings
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2000
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8 editions
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City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
 3.46 avg rating — 256 ratings
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2004
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Hotel de Dream
3.57 avg rating — 279 ratings
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2007
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Marcel Proust
3.66 avg rating — 223 ratings
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1999
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14 editions
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Genet
4.15 avg rating — 191 ratings
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1993
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12 editions
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My Lives
3.71 avg rating — 174 ratings
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2006
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“In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all those excesses are on display, those are straight families, and they think it's funny. But what people don't think is so funny is when two middle-aged lawyers who are married to each other move in next door to you and your wife and they have adopted a Korean girl and they want to send her to school with your children and they want to socialize with you and share a drink over the backyard fence. That creeps people out, especially Christians. So, I don't think gay marriage is a conservative issue. I think it's a radical issue.”
― Edmund White
― Edmund White
“When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.”
― Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
― Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
“There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product.”
― Edmund White
― Edmund White
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