THE UNPUNISHED VICE

An insightful account of the key role reading has played in the life of literary icon Edmund WhiteEdmund White made his name as a wr iter, but he remembers his life through the books he read. For White, each momentous occasion came with books to match: Proust's Rem embrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan/ th e Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York/ the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels.Ble nding me...[Llegir més]