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The Burning Library (1994) Edmund White is one of our most celebrated novelists and astute social commentators. Now this richly varied collection brings

States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980) In this city-by-city description of the way homosexual men lived in the late seventies, Edmund White gives

Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978) A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Nocturnes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing

Forgetting Elena (1973) Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, Edmund White’

The Beautiful Room is Empty (1988) This sequel to A Boy’s Own Story chronicles the late adolescence and early adulthood of the unnamed narrator.