Hotel de Dream is a fictional novel about real life author Stephen Crane. Told during his last days, Crane starts dictating a story he's always wanted to tell: The Painted Boy. Based on an actual painted boy he met a few years earlier, it's the story of a boy and a married man who's obsessed with hi...
This is an excellent book for what it is -- a very brief and readable biography of this remarkable figure, focused largely on his sick relationship with Verlaine; but also an intelligent meditation on Rimbaud's poetics, albeit in brief. White thinks that Enid Starkie's biography is excellent and re...
“And no wonder Paris, land of novelty and distraction, is the great city of the flaneur – that aimless stroller who loses himself in the crowd, who has no destination and goes wherever caprice or curiosity dictates his or her steps.”What is there to say about Paris that has not already been said? As...
White’s follow-up to A Boy's Own Story is an admirable effort. The language is still extraordinary. The various episodes recounted in the author’s life are certainly free from sentiment – if anything, the author leans towards self-evisceration and distance. Perhaps this absence of nostalgia is what ...
Dear God, but this is good.Update: Overall, four stars, but it really breaks down into two different ratings for the two major plotlines. The Grandcourt marriage? Oh, that is five stars of brutal marital misery. Daniel and the Jewish people? More like three. Interesting, overall, but Mirah and...
an attempt at creating a baroque novel of mind games and manipulation. unfortunately, it's an abortion. White eventually learned that there is no suspense when the author describes character motivation ad nauseum over the course of many, many pages... and so he simply gave up on suspenseful writing ...
Edmund White portrays his younger life in a narcotic and poetic style. not exactly the most flattering self-portrait... the protagonist's travails are emotionally affecting yet he remains creepily distanced from the events and people in his own life - in particular from his equally creepy, distant, ...
The only biography of Rimbaud that I've read. I appreciated White's frankness about letting his own hand be seen, as he tried to understand these lives. One thing that I took away from it was a way of seeing Rimbaud's wild poetic years as an integral part of his totally conservative life before and ...
i enjoyed this novel because edmund white is such a beautiful writer and it bothered me at points because the class stuff seems so unconscious but upon reflection i may have misread it. if you want a well-written gay book, white's always a go-to guy. if you want it, email me & i'll mail it to you.
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