A Previous Life

A Previous Life
Edmund White
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NZ$ 24.99
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NZ$ 19.99
Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
19 Jan 2023 UK
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9781526632258
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' Elegant, erudite, raunchy and fun' Andrew Sean Greer' The best book in Edmund White' s long and extraordinary career' Benjamin moser' Fresh and inventive and wise' Rebecca Makkai_____________________________________A daring, category-confounding and ruthlessly funny novel from Edmund White, exploring polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and love. Sicilian aristocrat and musician Ruggero, and his younger American wife, Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions. Until now they had a ban on speaking about the past, since transparency had wrecked their previous marriages. As the two take turns reading the memoirs they' ve written about their lives, Constance reveals her multiple marriages to older men, and Ruggero details the affairs he' s had with men and women across his lifetime - most importantly his passionate affair with the author Edmund White. A searing, scintillating take on physical beauty and its inevitable decline, A Previous Life pushes for a broader understanding of sexual orientation and explores the themes of love and age through numerous eyes, hearts and minds. Delightful, irreverent, and experimental, A Previous Life proves once more why White is considered a master of American literature.
Elegant, erudite, raunchy and fun, America' s great Man of Letters is working at the top of his form, giving us a pair of portraits hung against the pattern of history. What a joy to read this master of prose and invention! * Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of LESS * The best book in Edmund White' s long and extraordinary career * Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize winning author of SONTAG: HER LIFE AND WORK * White' s project, as always, is to show us the human: the human body as defined by its urges and needs, and the human heart as it evolves through time and experience. In A Previous Life, he also gives us daring experiments of form, of autofiction, and of storytelling. Fresh and inventive and wise * Rebecca Makkai, author of THE GREAT BELIEVERS *
Edmund White is an award-winning and prolific writer. His work, which includes the novel Our Young Man and the memoir The Flaneur, has revitalised American literature, breaking down boundaries of class, sexuality and power. His accolades include the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship under the recommendation of Susan Sontag. White lives in New York.

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