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The Farewell Symphony
by Edmund White
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Leans slightly. Text complete, clean and tight but with a hint of age-toning to the
- ISBN 10
- 0701136219
- ISBN 13
- 9780701136215
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
Edmund White was born in Cincinnati in 1940. He has taught literature and creative writing at Yale, Johns Hopkins, New York University and Columbia, was a full professor of English at Brown and served as executive director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. In 1983 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award for Literature from the National Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1993 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. For his last book, Genet: A Biography (1993), he was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Award. His other books include Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, A Boy's Own Story, Caracole and The Beautiful Room Is Empty. He lives in Paris. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 194555
- Title
- The Farewell Symphony
- Author
- Edmund White
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Leans slightly. Text complete, clean and tight but with a hint of age-toning to the
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0701136219
- ISBN 13
- 9780701136215
- Publisher
- London: Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- fictitious gays, gay novels, gay fiction, gay stories, american fiction, interpersonal fiction, 20th century fiction, gay men fiction, lgbtq+, gay men, american cultural identity, first edition books, books by edmund white, 0-7011-3621-9
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