false 1276941 8 Edmund White has long been praised as one of America's most accomplished novelists. <i>The Farewell Symphony</i> is the final volume in the autobiographical trilogy that began with <i>A Boy's Own Story</i> and <i>The Beautiful Room Is Empty</i>. It details the narrator's life in New York in the 1970s and his flight to Paris as the AIDS epidemic begins. White's prose, at once lucid and magical, is the essence of great writing. Its plainspoken cadences and language resonate with the tragedy of youthful passion giving way to hard-earned knowledge. Like Sherwood Anderson or Theodore Dreiser, White has captured the soul of the American experience--in this case a gay male experience--and made it into art. 243743 1997 The Farewell Symphony total:111|5:37|4:40|3:21|2:9|1:4| 111 430 159 13 2 1 false false Mon Jan 28 10:34:56 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 10:36:21 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 11:24:41 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 08:46:51 -0800 2007 A Boy's Own Story had nothing to connect its narrative to outside of the narrator's own obsessions, The Beautiful Room is Empty had the Stonewall Uprising of 1969. Except the book ends with this even...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 31 09:41:14 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 14:41:35 -0700 2007 I'll explain...

My mom gave this book to me, which is surprising since it's pretty much gay smut hidden in a Proustian pseudo-memoir. She would later scold me for owning the fantastic "Butt Book" (the magazine retrospect...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 27 09:33:19 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 09:47:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 16 08:47:27 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 09:15:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 06 22:06:26 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 22:07:27 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 06:30:01 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 06:37:41 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Thu Sep 13 19:53:46 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 19:57:25 -0700 2007
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