Paris is a city where even the most outrageous story of incest and murder is greeted with a verbal shrug: ‘Mais c’est normal!’
Edmund White Quotes
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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| Birth: | 13th January, 1940 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist |
About
Edmund Valentine White is an American novelist, as well as a writer of memoirs and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same sex love. Probably his best known books are The Joy of Gay Sex and his trio of autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty and The Farewell Symphony.
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