My Lives [Us. ed.] 0066213975, 9780066213972
Arranged thematically rather than chronologically, an entertaining collection of reminiscences by the critically acclaim
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English Pages 356 [369] Year 2006
Contents
My Shrinks
My Father
My Mother
My Hustlers
My Women
My Europe
My Master
My Blonds
My Genet
My Friends
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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"This i, Edmund \Vhitc's best book
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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MY LIVES
EDMUND WHITE
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MY LIVES. Copyright© 2006 by Edmund White. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022.
HarperCollins books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information, please write: Special Markets Department, HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. Portions of this book have appeared in different form in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Granta, Boulevard, and Ontario Review. First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing Pie. FIRST U.S. EDITION
Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data White, Edmund. My lives/ Edmund White.-lst U.S. ed. p. cm. ISBN-10: 0-06-621397-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-621397-2 1. White, Edmund, 1940- 2. Novelists, American-20th century-Biography. 3. Biographers-United States--Biography. 4. Gay men-United StatesBiography. I. Title. PS3573.H463Z47 2006 813'.54-dc22 [Bl 2005049506 06 07 08 09 JO OFF/QUE 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 l
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Contents
My Shrinks
1
My Father
31
My Mother
59
My Hustlers
103
My Women
139
My Europe
171
My Master
221
My Blonds
263
My Genet
307
My Friends
335
Acknowledgments
357
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