Edmund White

Bloomsbury presents The Loves of My Life by the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. Read by Joel Froomkin.

Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality....

Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising - and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink....

The Farewell Symphony is a triumph of reflection and expressive elegance. It is also a stunning and wholly original panorama of gay life over the past thirty years....

In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party....

From National Book Award-honored author Edmund White comes a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich older man who falls in love with a young ballerino....

In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair....

Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners....

Edmund White is one of our most celebrated novelists. He is also a brilliant journalist and cultural commentator on the arts....

This magisterial collection of 25 years of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons....

Considered one of the greatest—and most influential—writers of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust was also one of its most fascinating figures. A strange, reclusive genius who often lay in bed for days at a time obsessively rewriting his masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, Proust was...

In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure....