false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172266267m/157440.jpg 157440 5 Edmund White majored in sexual explicitness with his boldly autobiographical trilogy--<I>A Boy's Own Story</I>, <I>The Beautiful Room Is Empty</I>, and <I>The Farewell Symphony</I>. Now, explicitly as ever, he trains his unflinching eye on a new subject: a young man's death from AIDS. Austin is a fiftysomething American expat in Paris; Julien is a young married man he meets at the gym. Much to Austin's surprise, Julien calls him and soon they are sharing a bed and a life. <I>The Married Man</I> is White's Henry James novel: the first couple hundred pages show us a satirical portrait of young Julien as a stuffy Frenchman and a more elliptical portrait of Austin's apprehension of French culture through his lover. With Julien, "Austin was always learning things, not necessarily reasoned or researched information but rather all those thousands and thousands of brand names, turns of phrase, aversions and anecdotes that make up a culture as surely as do the moves in a child's game of hopscotch." <p> But White wants to take us all the way to the end of this relationship. Austin is HIV positive, and it soon becomes clear that Julien has AIDS. As Julien's health unravels, the two travel to Providence, to Key West, to Venice, to Rome, and ultimately to Morocco. The author coins a darkly appropriate phrase for this urge to move: he calls it "AIDS-restlessness." White, in fact, unveils a whole gallery of startling images as Julien nears death. Julien is "the bowler hat descending into the live volcano." Thin and brown and bearded, he looks "like the Ottoman Empire in a turn-of-the-century political cartoon." Though he can't read it, Julien acquires a copy of the Koran. "It was the perfect book for a weary, dying man--pious, incomprehensible pages to strum, an ink cloud of unknowing." White has found a language both magical and clinical to describe a horrible death. <I>--Claire Dederer</I> 151930 2000 The Married Man total:103|5:20|4:41|3:36|2:4|1:2| 103 382 146 11 157440 0679781447 9780679781448 96 9 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172266267m/157440.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157440.The_Married_Man 4 1 false Tue Mar 31 17:32:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 08:48:21 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 17:32:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 157440 0679781447 9780679781448 96 9 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172266267m/157440.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157440.The_Married_Man 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 08:48:04 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 17:28:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1283752 0375400052 9780375400056 6 2 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182488017m/1283752.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1283752.The_Married_Man 4 0 false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 11:59:33 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 17:56:39 -0700 2008 once more...]]> 157440 0679781447 9780679781448 96 9 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172266267m/157440.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157440.The_Married_Man 3 0 false Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 09:22:09 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 13:12:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 157440 0679781447 9780679781448 96 9 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172266267m/157440.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157440.The_Married_Man 3 0 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sat Apr 28 13:45:15 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 08:54:18 -0700 2007
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