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Forgetting Elena: A Novel

By Edmund White

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1994
ISBN
067975573X, 9780679755739
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1814263 bytes)
Pages
192\0
Time added
2018-06-01 09:15:36
Gay;Fiction;Literature & Fiction;Gay & Lesbian;Cri

Description

Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community where Forgetting Elena takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one's bathroom habits to the composition of "spontaneous" poetry is subject to rigid conventions. Apparently Nabokov's endorsement of it launched the literary career of Edmund White.

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