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Author:	Edmund White	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Random House Inc	ISBN-10:	0375400052
ISBN-13:	9780375400056	Subject:	--
Publication Year:	2000	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Very Good

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Synopsis
In Edmund White's highly autobiographical novel, Austin Smith, a man from an aristocratic Southern family, moves to the Ile St. Louis in Paris and begins an affair with Julien, who is not only 20 years younger but married and in the throes of a divorce. Eventually, the two men move to Providence, R.I., where Austin has a teaching job, and Julien discovers that he has AIDS. As his health worsens, another man enters their lives--one of Austin's ex-lovers, also a victim of AIDS. By means of the dynamics among these three, Edmund White has much to say about love versus egotism. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Also a 2001 nominee for a Lambda Literary Award.
Size
Length:	321 pages
Height:	9.8 in.
Width:	7.0 in.
Thickness:	1.5 in.
Weight:	24.0 oz.

Publisher's Note
Romantic sparks fly when a lonely fiftysomething American furniture scholar falls in love with a married woman much younger than himself. By the author of The Farewell Symphony.
Industry reviews
"While the poetic flourishes in THE MARRIED MAN are as fine as ever..., some expository passages can be strangely flat and awkward....Still, there's nothing flat or heavy-handed about the closing quarter of the book....The book's naked, unsparing account of Julien's final weeks--which seem to unfold both in slow motion and at terrifying speed--is as powerful as anything White has written." Upchurch "Many of White's distinctive gifts are in evidence here: his tart humour, his smart cross-cultural commentary, and above all his ability to write beautiful prose....Unfortunately..., from a writer capable of such graceful precision, it is painful to encounter language which is often slack and lazy....More threatening to the novel's emotional impact is White's uneven hand with detail....White's uneven pacing in this focused tale may not be surprising when one considers that he is a writer most at home with the broad canvas, the vivid catalogue...." Times Literary Supplement - Sylvia Brownrigg (03/17/2000) "THE MARRIED MAN has all of White's directness and candor, but far fewer of the unrelenting descriptions of gay shenanigans that so startled early readers of A BOY'S OWN STORY....Unfortunately, in THE MARRIED MAN, he is also sometimes a sloppy and imprecise writer [but] when White sets his mind to it, as he does frequently amid the soft, plump sprawl of THE MARRIED MAN, he can write with evocative exactitude." New York Review of Books - John Banville (08/10/2000) "White has suggested that every aspect of heterosexual life, no matter how bizarre, is already an aesthetic cliché, immortalized in a poem or a pop song. Here, his portrait of a gay union works both with and against the clichés of marriage, to droll and disturbing effect." New York Times Book Review - Alice Truax (07/02/2000)

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0375400052
Title : The Married Man
EAN : 9780375400056
Authors : Edmund White
Binding : Unknown Binding
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date : 2000-05-30
Pages : 321
List Price (MSRP) : 25.00
Height : 0.8000 inches
Width : 6.0000 inches
Length : 9.2000 inches
Weight : 1.1000 pounds
Keywords : Gay, White, Edmund, General, General AAS, Contemporary, Literary
Condition : Very Good

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