The Burning Library: Essays by Edmund White
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Overview: Along with his groundbreaking essays that redefine politics, language, identity, and friendship in the light of gay experience and desire, this magisterial collection of 25 years of White’s nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons as diverse as Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe and the singer formerly known as Prince. Reading tour.
Genre: Non-fiction | Biographies & Memoirs MM
“A scrupulous, often elegant stylist …. In its genial, smart appreciativeness, [his literary criticism] remains remarkably consistent …. Brilliant connoisseurship.”
—Boston Globe
“A man who … lives at the edge of the society he so painstakingly observes, his highest good the truth of the imagination.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Unified by sharp wit and seemingly boundless erudition …. When White essays literature, he nears perfection.”
—Publishers Weekly
“There can be few recent critical volumes, however considered or substantial, that measure up to this collection … in charm, perspicacity, or wisdom.”
—The Sunday Times (London)
“A Diderot or Voltaire without the former’s scorn or the latter’s indignation, but armed with the same deep moral awareness and the same ability to charm the socks off the reader even while retailing unpalatable truths …. [A work of] unparalleled stylistic elegance.”
—The Observer
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