The newest novel from virtuosic writer Edmund White about the perils of beauty; a funny, sexy account of gay life in New York City during the 1970s and '80s.
Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and, most recently, Jack Holmes and His Friend. His nonfiction includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. White lives in New York and teaches at Princeton University.
White’s prose is as fresh as a series of slaps to the face, filled
with reckless energy . . . [Our Young Man] plays with [Oscar]
Wilde’s conceit in wily, unexpected ways as it speeds you along
with its winningly hectic prose.
*New York Times Book Review*
White wastes no time delving into the dark, uniquely funny side of
the fashion world . . . [A] sad, heartfelt, and comic coming-of-age
story.
*Interview*
White has proven himself again and again to be one of the finest
storytellers of his generation . . . an author who entices his
readers with plots that come honey-drizzled in language to which
the rest of us can only aspire. White's latest, Our Young Man,
displays an author at his peak and fully in control . . . Sleek,
witty, a bit raunchy, and fully enticing and entertaining.
*New York Journal of Books*
We meet Guy at the dawn of the AIDS crisis, but the novel does the
remarkable work of telling Guy’s story with playfulness and enough
air that although it’s a substantial work of storytelling, it
floats.
*Gawker*
Artful . . . An amused tale of our endless capacity for idiocy in
the face of stunning beauty . . . All human life is here . . .
Trauma, misunderstanding and self-regard: out of these materials
White creates not a tragedy but a little human comedy.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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