Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a compendium of all the ways reading has shaped White's life and work. His larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world's best-loved cultural figures. · Books overflow the shelves and stand in piles on the floor of Edmund White’s Manhattan apartment—just as described in his engaging new memoir, The . · Reading is a hobby that never grows stale—and an unpunished vice. Edmund White was a pioneer author of gay lit and of memoirs, writing his partly fictitious, partly autobiographical A Boy’s Own Story, and its three sequels, which chronicle the AIDs era, in /5.
White, who is gay and the author of "A Boy's Own Story" and "The Farewell Symphony," is back with a new book-crazy memoir, "The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading.". The Unpublished Vice is an exquisite, winding staircase though the rich and varied library of an important writer's readings; one that, like the very best books, delivers the reader to secret but familiar chambers seemingly—if only—without end. The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading By Edmund White Bloomsburg Hardcover, , pp. White's larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world's best-loved cultural figures. Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a sensitive, smart account of a life in literature. Read an extract.
Description. A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader. Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen. The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White is published by Bloomsbury (£). To order a copy for £ go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £ Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a compendium of all the ways reading has shaped White's life and work. With characteristic wit and candour, he recalls reading Henry James to Peggy Guggenheim in her private gondola in Venice, and phone calls at eight o'clock in the morning to Vladimir Nabokov - who once said that White was his favourite American writer.
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