Jack Holmes and His Friend
(Sprache: Englisch)
A moving, expertly-crafted novel from one of New York's most prolific and well-respected authors
A moving, expertly-crafted novel from one of New York's most prolific and well-respected authors
A moving, expertly-crafted novel from one of New York's most prolific and well-respected authors
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A moving, expertly-crafted novel from one of New York's most prolific and well-respected authors
A moving, expertly-crafted novel from one of New York's most prolific and well-respected authors
A moving, expertly-crafted novel from one of New York's most prolific and well-respected authors
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______________ 'This comedy of sexual manners may be White's finest novel' - Sunday Times'An elegant study of the paradoxes and half-truths that emerge in long-standing friendships' - New Yorker 'Marks White out as an immensely gifted chronicler of the intricacies of the human heart' - Alex Clark, Guardian______________ Jack Holmes is suffering from unrequited love. It doesn't look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls for: the other men he takes to bed never stay for long.Jack's friend Will Wright comes from old stock, has aspirations to be a writer and, like Jack, works on the Northern Review. Jack will introduce Will to the beautiful, brittle young woman he will marry, but is discreet about his own adventures in love - for this is sixties New York, literary and intense, before gay liberation; a concoction of old society, bohemians rich and poor, sleek European immigrants and transplanted Midwesterners. Against this charged backdrop, the different lives of Jack and Will intertwine, and as their loves come and go, they will always be, at the very least, friends.
Autoren-Porträt von Edmund White
Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and Our Young Man. His nonfiction includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, The Unpunished Vice, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. He was named the 2018 winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and received the 2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and A Previous Life. His nonfiction includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, The Unpunished Vice, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. He has received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. He lives in New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Edmund White
- 2013, 400 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 20 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408830272
- ISBN-13: 9781408830277
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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Edmund White has three voices. First there is the storyteller, relaxed, conversational, an anecdotalist, an inspired flaneur. Then there is the poet: on every page there lies in wait a metaphor of startling precision, an image that holds and reattracts the eye. And then there is the laic philosopher, who observes human life from the highest altitudes, held aloft by vast infusions of erudition and experience. In Jack Holmes and His Friend, White's trio is in frictionless accord Martin Amis This comedy of sexual manners may be White's finest novel Sunday Times Wise, funny, sympathetic and richly entertaining novel Boyd Tonkin, Independent There's a sleek, close-shaved quality to White's prose that in passages gives it the warm lubicriousness of early Updike and the dry martini sting of Cheever Financial Times It will make you smile with admiration Evening Standard Marks White out as an immensely gifted chronicler of the intricacies of the human heart Alex Clark, Guardian Lucid and powerful ... White is a novelist of great insight Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph An elegant study of the paradoxes and half-truths that emerge in long-standing friendships New Yorker White's talent remains undiminished Daily Mail
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Edmund White has three voices. First there is the storyteller, relaxed, conversational, an anecdotalist, an inspired flaneur. Then there is the poet: on every page there lies in wait a metaphor of startling precision, an image that holds and reattracts the eye. And then there is the laic philosopher, who observes human life from the highest altitudes, held aloft by vast infusions of erudition and experience. In Jack Holmes and His Friend, White's trio is in frictionless accord Martin Amis
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