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Nocturnes for the King of Naples

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by Edmund White
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Availability:In StockContributor:Edmund White, Garth Greenwell (Foreword by)Series:McNally EditionsPublish date:2024-06-04Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:McNally EditionsISBN-13:9781946022660ISBN-10:1946022667UPC:9781946022660Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, LGBTQ+, PsychologicalBook Topic:GaySize:8.43 x 4.80 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC6HDGD491
The letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by "the paterfamilias of queer literature" (New York Times)

"Can't sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you." In a series of late-night letters, gorgeous, funny, filled with memory, sensuality, and regret, a seducer calls across the years to the great love of his youth: an older, revered expatriate known, in his adoptive city, as the King of Naples. As the narrator evokes their affair, in scenes of beauty and remorse, his memories range over the men who came after and before, especially the seductive father who still haunts his erotic imagination.

First published in 1978, before the trilogy of frankly autobiographical novels that made him famous, Nocturnes for the King of Naples reveals Edmund White at his most poetic, playful, and evocative, a magician on the level of James Salter, James Merrill, or Vladimir Nabokov.
Language:EnglishPublisher:McNally EditionsISBN-13:9781946022660ISBN-10:1946022667UPC:9781946022660Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, LGBTQ+, PsychologicalBook Topic:GaySize:8.43 x 4.80 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC6HDGD491
Edmund White was born in Cincinnati in 1940. His many novels include the autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony; he has published biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud, as well as memoirs, short stories, and criticism; in 1977 he co-authored The Joy of Gay Sex. He is an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in New York City.

Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, Cleanness, and Small Rain. A Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at NYU.
Publisher: McNally Editions

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Edmund White, Garth Greenwell (Foreword by)

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Edmund White

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