My Lives
A Autobiography, Glbt, Biography book. The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books....
No one has been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, starting with A Boy's Own Story, White here takes fiction out of his story and delivers the facts of his life in all their shocking and absorbing verity. From an adolescence in the 1950s, an era that tried to "cure his homosexuality" but found him "unsalvageable," he emerged into a 1960s society that redesignated his orientation as "acceptable (nearly)." He describes a life touched by psychotherapy in every decade, starting with his flamboyant and demanding therapist mother, who considered him her own personal test case and personal escort to cocktail lounges after her divorce. His father thought that even wearing a wristwatch was effeminate, though custodial visits to Dad in Cincinnati inadvertently initiated White into the culture of "hustlers and johns" that changed his life. In My Lives, White shares his enthusiasms and his passions for Paris, for London, for Jean Genet and introduces us to his lovers and...
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- Pages: 368 pages
- ISBN: 9780066213972 / 66213975
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The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. Edmund White, My Lives //
This is hands down the best book I read in 2006. i'm stuck between two and three stars for the book. some parts were beautifully written and captivating. i think that white has captured an element regarding gay sexual relationships that no other author has been able to put into words. he's also got great insight into certain other elements: i.e. cultural, gender, sociopolitical. that... Edmund White may be the most undislikable man on Planet Earth but as this curious book concluded in a weltering wall-covering ejaculation of thick creamy-textured name-dropping the like of which has hardly ever been attempted beforeI could have written a chapter called My Celebrities. Over the years I've met everyone from Christopher...
