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After the near-atrocity that was 2007's Chaos collection, White returns with a fantastic novel: a novel that shows he might be through with trying to prove his (quickly waining) relevance to gay fiction, and instead embracing his age and his status of a (albe...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 19 11:09:43 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 04 16:37:33 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 02 11:21:27 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 11:22:19 -0700 2009
Edmund White, gratefully, is a prolific writer, a gifted man of letters who has become one of America's more important authors. While much of Edmund White's oeuvre is about gay life, he does not confine his talent to the one...more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 12:20:18 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 09:58:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:52:48 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:52:48 -0800 2009 Rumors of Stephen Crane's last, lost work have been around for ages, and they give Edmund White an excellent excuse to practice his well-honed brand of invented history in his 19th novel. Problems arise, however, with the overreaching story within a story. The tale of a country boy turned rent boy m...

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The story takes place during the final days of Crane's life (he...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 15:07:39 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 15:08:32 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 14:30:38 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 11:23:04 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 09 10:45:35 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 11:00:15 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 24 19:19:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 19:19:34 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Feb 15 19:57:53 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 08:01:42 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Feb 16 07:48:36 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 07:51:53 -0800 2008 The Painted Boy about a boy who is a prostitute. So we have a story within a story here. The small story came alive for me far more easily than the lar...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 11:06:04 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 11:08:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 09 16:26:54 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 17:50:09 -0800 2007
Stephen Crane, on his deathbed, dictates a novel to his wife that he had tried writing years early but was told to destroy in order to save his career (about a syphilitic newsboy prostitute and his older married lover). Supe...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1522475