Edmund White Inside a Pearl Memoir of Paris Years 2014 Hardcover-image
Edmund White Inside a Pearl Memoir of Paris Years 2014 Hardcover-image

Edmund White Inside a Pearl Memoir of Paris Years 2014 Hardcover

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Dewey Decimal: 813.54 Format: Hardcover Publication Year: 2014 Reviews: "Edmund White might be a rare person of letters in an old-fashioned sense." -- Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers "[White is] one of the most prominent gay writers in the United States, a position he occupies gleefully . . . Yet White is wonderfully tender about his lovers, whom he treats with uniform respect, even melancholy. Indeed a sadness infuses his story . . .This narrative unfolds, for all its frenetic pleasure-seeking, in the shadow of AIDS . . . [A] beautifully written memoir. . . 'Inside a Pearl' refers not only to Paris, with its mists and mysteries. This pearl is somehow a kind of snow globe as well, a transparent sphere that encloses a miniature world. White shakes this luminous object. Snow shimmers everywhere. And then the snow settles." -- Jay Parini, New York Times Book Review "White proves once again, like a scopophiliac in a hall of mirrors, that he is the unrivaled master of nailing down a time, a place, a mood, and its walking, talking, erring, outrageous denizens... White's grand banquet comes with a delicious roster of cameos--Michel Foucault, Ned Rorem, Milan Kundera, Mary McCarthy, Lauren Bacall, Julian Barnes, Nigella Lawson, Dominique Nabokov, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Azzedine Alaia, Paloma Piccaso...But Inside a Pearl is also a dedication to the lovers and companions and night-time cruisers who get equal footing in the sweeping, Bank-to-Bank narrative...Early along the way, White tests positive for AIDS, and a trace of flinching mortality underlies the extravagance and dizzying spree that makes Inside a Pearl such an exhilarating ride. White has set to page the ins and outs of Paris before--particularly in his literary walking guide, The Flaneur, in 2001. But he's never written about the city with such an expert mix of anthropology and vulnerability." -- Interview "What is fascinating about Inside a Pearl [is] its game effort at self-examination and its commitment to warts-and-all sharing about sexual aging, social arrivism, and the brutal sadness caused by AIDS...His portrait of Marie-Claude de Brunhoff...is one of the most affecting depictions of the contours of friendship between a gay man and a straight woman in recent literarature." -- Bookforum "The memories of high-profile artists, fashion designers, actors and socialites are loose-lipped, uproarious tales of the louche and famous." -- The New York Times Style Magazine "A gossipy and enlightening account of living as a gay man among the French intelligentsia . . .White's skillful writing rescues the book from being just another account of an American in Paris." -- Library Journal "White is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, biographer of Genet and Proust, and a self-described 'archaeologist of gossip.' . . . [He] is renowned for the purity of his style and for his frank depictions of sex, and he is in peak form here." -- Booklist "A memoir that engages on a number of levels, as a pivotal literary figure recounts his productive Parisian years." -- Kirkus Reviews "Provide[s] insightful glimpses of Paris in the late 20th century." -- Publishers Weekly, "A gossipy and enlightening account of living as a gay man among the French intelligentsia . . .White's skillful writing rescues the book from being just another account of an American in Paris." - Library Journal, [White is] one of the most prominent gay writers in the United States, a position he occupies gleefully . . . Yet White is wonderfully tender about his lovers, whom he treats with uniform respect, even melancholy. Indeed a sadness infuses his story . . .This narrative unfolds, for all its frenetic pleasure-seeking, in the shadow of AIDS . . . [A] beautifully written memoir. . . 'Inside a Pearl' refers not only to Paris, with its mists and mysteries. This pearl is somehow a kind of snow globe as well, a transparent sphere that encloses a miniature world. White shakes this luminous object. Snow shimmers everywhere. And then the snow settles., "Edmund White might be a rare person of letters in an old-fashioned sense." -- Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers "[White is] one of the most prominent gay writers in the United States, a position he occupies gleefully . . . Yet White is wonderfully tender about his lovers, whom he treats with uniform respect, even melancholy. Indeed a sadness infuses his story . . .This narrative unfolds, for all its frenetic pleasure-seeking, in the shadow of AIDS . . . [A] beautifully written memoir. . . 'Inside a Pearl' refers not only to Paris, with its mists and mysteries. This pearl is somehow a kind of snow globe as well, a transparent sphere that encloses a miniature world. White shakes this luminous object. Snow shimmers everywhere. And then the snow settles." -- Jay Parini, New York Times Book Review "White proves once again, like a scopophiliac in a hall of mirrors, that he is the unrivaled master of nailing down a time, a place, a mood, and its walking, talking, erring, outrageous denizens... White's grand banquet comes with a delicious roster of cameos--Michel Foucault, Ned Rorem, Milan Kundera, Mary McCarthy, Lauren Bacall, Julian Barnes, Nigella Lawson, Dominique Nabokov, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Azzedine Alaia, Paloma Piccaso...But Inside a Pearl is also a dedication to the lovers and companions and night-time cruisers who get equal footing in the sweeping, Bank-to-Bank narrative...Early along the way, White tests positive for AIDS, and a trace of flinching mortality underlies the extravagance and dizzying spree that makes Inside a Pearl such an exhilarating ride. White has set to page the ins and outs of Paris before--particularly in his literary walking guide, The Flaneur, in 2001. But he's never written about the city with such an expert mix of anthropology and vulnerability." -- Interview "What is fascinating about Inside a Pearl [is] its game effort at self-examination and its commitment to warts-and-all sharing about sexual aging, social arrivism, and the brutal sadness caused by AIDS...His portrait of Marie-Claude de Brunhoff...is one of the most affecting depictions of the contours of friendship between a gay man and a straight woman in recent literarature." -- Bookforum "The memories of high-profile artists, fashion designers, actors and socialites are loose-lipped, uproarious tales of the louche and famous." -- The New York Times Style Magazine "A gossipy and enlightening account of living as a gay man among the French intelligentsia . . .White's skillful writing rescues the book from being just another account of an American in Paris." -- Library Journal "White is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, biographer of Genet and Proust, and a self-described 'archaeologist of gossip.' . . . [He] is renowned for the purity of his style and for his frank depictions of sex, and he is in peak form here." -- Booklist "A memoir that engages on a number of levels, as a pivotal literary figure recounts his productive Parisian years." -- Kirkus Reviews "Provide[s] insightful glimpses of Paris in the late 20th century." -- Publishers Weekly, A gossipy and enlightening account of living as a gay man among the French intelligentsia . . .White's skillful writing rescues the book from being just another account of an American in Paris., White proves once again, like a scopophiliac in a hall of mirrors, that he is the unrivaled master of nailing down a time, a place, a mood, and its walking, talking, erring, outrageous denizens... White's grand banquet comes with a delicious roster of cameos--Michel Foucault, Ned Rorem, Milan Kundera, Mary McCarthy, Lauren Bacall, Julian Barnes, Nigella Lawson, Dominique Nabokov, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Azzedine Alaia, Paloma Piccaso...But Inside a Pearl is also a dedication to the lovers and companions and night-time cruisers who get equal footing in the sweeping, Bank-to-Bank narrative...Early along the way, White tests positive for AIDS, and a trace of flinching mortality underlies the extravagance and dizzying spree that makes Inside a Pearl such an exhilarating ride. White has set to page the ins and outs of Paris before--particularly in his literary walking guide, The Flaneur, in 2001. But he's never written about the city with such an expert mix of anthropology and vulnerability., "The memories of high-profile artists, fashion designers, actors and socialites are loose-lipped, uproarious tales of the louche and famous." - T, the New York Times Style Magazine, What is fascinating about Inside a Pearl [is] its game effort at self-examination and its commitment to warts-and-all sharing about sexual aging, social arrivism, and the brutal sadness caused by AIDS...His portrait of Marie-Claude de Brunhoff...is one of the most affecting depictions of the contours of friendship between a gay man and a straight woman in recent literarature., "[White is] one of the most prominent gay writers in the United States, a position he occupies gleefully . . . Yet White is wonderfully tender about his lovers, whom he treats with uniform respect, even melancholy. Indeed a sadness infuses his story . . .This narrative unfolds, for all its frenetic pleasure-seeking, in the shadow of AIDS . . . [A] beautifully written memoir. . . 'Inside a Pearl' refers not only to Paris, with its mists and mysteries. This pearl is somehow a kind of snow globe as well, a transparent sphere that encloses a miniature world. White shakes this luminous object. Snow shimmers everywhere. And then the snow settles." - Jay Parini, New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoirs for Spring "Edmund White might be a rare person of letters in an old-fashioned sense." - Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers "[White is] one of the most prominent gay writers in the United States, a position he occupies gleefully . . . Yet White is wonderfully tender about his lovers, whom he treats with uniform respect, even melancholy. Indeed a sadness infuses his story . . .This narrative unfolds, for all its frenetic pleasure-seeking, in the shadow of AIDS . . . [A] beautifully written memoir. . . 'Inside a Pearl' refers not only to Paris, with its mists and mysteries. This pearl is somehow a kind of snow globe as well, a transparent sphere that encloses a miniature world. White shakes this luminous object. Snow shimmers everywhere. And then the snow settles." - Jay Parini, New York Times Book Review "White proves once again, like a scopophiliac in a hall of mirrors, that he is the unrivaled master of nailing down a time, a place, a mood, and its walking, talking, erring, outrageous denizens… White's grand banquet comes with a delicious roster of cameos-Michel Foucault, Ned Rorem, Milan Kundera, Mary McCarthy, Lauren Bacall, Julian Barnes, Nigella Lawson, Dominique Nabokov, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Azzedine Alaia, Paloma Piccaso…But Inside a Pearl is also a dedication to the lovers and companions and night-time cruisers who get equal footing in the sweeping, Bank-to-Bank narrative…Early along the way, White tests positive for AIDS, and a trace of flinching mortality underlies the extravagance and dizzying spree that makes Inside a Pearl such an exhilarating ride. White has set to page the ins and outs of Paris before-particularly in his literary walking guide, The Flaneur , in 2001. But he's never written about the city with such an expert mix of anthropology and vulnerability." Interview "What is fascinating about Inside a Pearl [is] its game effort at self-examination and its commitment to warts-and-all sharing about sexual aging, social arrivism, and the brutal sadness caused by AIDS…His portrait of Marie-Claude de Brunhoff…is one of the most affecting depictions of the contours of friendship between a gay man and a straight woman in recent literarature." Bookforum "The memories of high-profile artists, fashion designers, actors and socialites are loose-lipped, uproarious tales of the louche and famous." T, the New York Times Style Magazine "A gossipy and enlightening account of living as a gay man among the French intelligentsia . . .White's skillful writing rescues the book from being just another account of an American in Paris." - Library Journal "White is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, biographer of Genet and Proust, and a self-described 'archaeologist of gossip.' . . . [He] is renowned for the purity of his style and for his frank depictions of sex, and he is in peak form here." - Booklist "A memoir that engages on a number of levels, as a pivotal literary figure recounts his productive Parisian years." - Kirkus Reviews "Provide[s] insightful glimpses of Paris in the late 20th century." - Publishers Weekly, The memories of high-profile artists, fashion designers, actors and socialites are loose-lipped, uproarious tales of the louche and famous., "White's skillful writing rescues the book from being just another account of an American in Paris." -- Library Journal "White is renowned for the purity of his style and for his frank depictions of sex, and he is in peak form here...He is wise in his portrayal of the French." -- Booklist "A memoir that engages on a number of levels, as a pivotal literary figure recounts his production Parisian years." -- Kirkus Reviews "This rumination on his beau monde cohorts finds the writer acclimating to a slightly more sober lifestyle, but the memories of high-profile artists, fashion designers, actors and socialites are loose-lipped, uproarious tales of the louche and famous." -- T, the New York Times Style Magazine "What is fascinating about Inside a Pearl [is] its game effort at self-examination and its commitment to warts-and-all sharing about sexual aging, social arrivism, and the brutal sadness caused by AIDS...His portrait of Marie-Claude de Brunhoff...is one of the most affecting depictions of the contours of friendship between a gay man and a straight woman in recent literature." -- Bookforum "White proves once again, like a scopophiliac in a hall of mirrors, that he is the unrivaled master of nailing down a time, a place, a mood, and its walking, talking, erring, outrageous denizens..." -- Interview "So witty, so insightful, so bristling with gossip, that one almost fails to notice that it is an essential chronicle of a revolution in many ways no less important than the fall of Communism: the gay liberation movement...In one of his many discourses on friends famous -- Jasper Johns, Peggy Guggenheim, James Merrill -- and otherwise, White described a now-forgotten novelist's book as lacking 'that key, embarrassing literary quality no one knows how to discuss: charm.' City Boy is full of it, even when discussing weighty topics." -- Harper's on City Boy "For readers familiar with both the author and his subject, certain features of this ramble through Paris past and present will come as no surprise... But White's genius as a fl'neur is revealed in his affinity for unexpected pleasures, and he includes many for our delectation, from his encounters with present-day royalists to Colette's one-time antidote for food poisoning: a stuffed cabbage and a currant tart." -- The New Yorker on The Flaneur "Edmund White is the preeminent gay man of letters of our time... Revelations come wrapped in revelations...The book is a joy ride from first to last." -- Bay Area Reporter "This pearl is somehow a kind of snow globe as well, a transparent sphere that encloses a miniature world. White shakes this luminous object. Snow shimmers everywhere. And then the snow settles." -- New York Times Book Review "A glittering, delicious, tender, and funny memoir about his fifteen years in Paris." -- Nashville Scene "Stealthily affecting... With a feather dipped in acid, White recounts his off-page encounters with a glittering 1980s beau monde ...Characteristically vivid when it comes to eros White is just as unsparing when the pleasure-seeking gives way to the loss (including the death of his lover, Hubert, of AIDS), and to his own increasing sense of vulnerability and mortality." -- The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoirs for Spring "White proves once again, like a scopophiliac in a hall of mirrors, that he is the unrivaled master of nailing down a time, a place, a mood, and its walking, talking, erring, outrageous denizens… White's grand banquet comes with a delicious roster of cameos-Michel Foucault, Ned Rorem, Milan Kundera, Mary McCarthy, Lauren Bacall, Julian Barnes, Nigella Lawson, Dominique Nabokov, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Azzedine Alaia, Paloma Piccaso…But Inside a Pearl is also a dedication to the lovers and companions and night-time cruisers who get equal footing in the sweeping, Bank-to-Bank narrative…Early along the way, White tests positive for AIDS, and a trace of flinching mortality underlies the extravagance and dizzying spree that makes Inside Pearl such an exhilarating ride. White has set to page the ins and outs of Paris before-particularly in his literary walking guide, The Flaneur , in 2001. But he's never written about the city with such an expert mix of anthropology and vulnerability." Interview "What is fascinating about Inside a Pearl [is] its game effort at self-examination and its commitment to warts-and-all sharing about sexual aging, social arrivism, and the brutal sadness caused by AIDS…His portrait of Marie-Claude de Brunhoff…is one of the most affecting depictions of the contours of friendship between a gay man and a straight woman in recent literarature." Bookforum "The memories of high-profile artists, fashion designers, actors and socialites are loose-lipped, uproarious tales of the louche and famous." T, the New York Times Style Magazine "A gossipy and enlightening account of living as a gay man among the French intelligentsia . . .White's skillful writing rescues the book from being just another account of an American in Paris." - Library Journal "White is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, biographer of Genet and Proust, and a self-described 'archaeologist of gossip.' . . . [He] is renowned for the purity of his style and for his frank depictions of sex, and he is in peak form here." - Booklist "A memoir that engages on a number of levels, as a pivotal literary figure recounts his productive Parisian years." - Kirkus Reviews "Provide[s] insightful glimpses of Paris in the late 20th century." - Publishers Weekly, White is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, biographer of Genet and Proust, and a self-described 'archaeologist of gossip.' . . . [He] is renowned for the purity of his style and for his frank depictions of sex, and he is in peak form here., A memoir that engages on a number of levels, as a pivotal literary figure recounts his productive Parisian years., "White is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, biographer of Genet and Proust, and a self-described 'archaeologist of gossip.' . . . [He] is renowned for the purity of his style and for his frank depictions of sex, and he is in peak form here." - Booklist, White proves once again, like a scopophiliac in a hall of mirrors, that he is the unrivaled master of nailing down a time, a place, a mood, and its walking, talking, erring, outrageous denizens... White's grand banquet comes with a delicious roster of cameos--Michel Foucault, Ned Rorem, Milan Kundera, Mary McCarthy, Lauren Bacall, Julian Barnes, Nigella Lawson, Dominique Nabokov, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Azzedine Alaia, Paloma Piccaso...But Inside a Pearl is also a dedication to the lovers and companions and night-time cruisers who get equal footing in the sweeping, Bank-to-Bank narrative...Early along the way, White tests positive for AIDS, and a trace of flinching mortality underlies the extravagance and dizzying spree that makes Inside a Pearl such an exhilarating ride. White has set to page the ins and outs of Paris before|9781608195824|, "What is fascinating about Inside a Pearl [is] its game effort at self-examination and its commitment to warts-and-all sharing about sexual aging, social arrivism, and the brutal sadness caused by AIDS...His portrait of Marie-Claude de Brunhoff...is one of the most affecting depictions of the contours of friendship between a gay man and a straight woman in recent literarature." - Bookforum, "A memoir that engages on a number of levels, as a pivotal literary figure recounts his productive Parisian years." - Kirkus Reviews, "Edmund White might be a rare person of letters in an old-fashioned sense." - Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers Synopsis: When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was forty-three years old, couldn't speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left fifteen years later to take a teaching position in the U.S., he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and TV, and in his work as a journalist, he'd made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. He'd also developed a close friendship with an older woman, Marie-Claude, through which he'd come to understand French life and culture in a deeper way. The book's title evokes the Parisian landscape in the eternal mists and the half-light, the serenity of the city compared to the New York White had known (and vividly recalled in City Boy ). White fell headily in love with the city and its culture: both intoxicated and intellectually stimulated. He became the definitive biographer of Jean Genet; he wrote lives of Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud; and he became a recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters. Inside a Pearl recalls those fertile years for White. It's a memoir which gossips and ruminates, and offers a brilliant examination of a city and a culture eternally imbued with an aura of enchantment., An irresistible literary treat: a memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White. gtin13: 9781608195824 ISBN-10: 1608195821 LC Classification Number: PS3573.H463Z46 2014 Genre: Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History Topic: Special Interest / Lgbt, Europe / France, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Lgbt Item Length: 8.3 in Item Height: 1 in Intended Audience: Trade brand: Bloomsbury Publishing USA Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN-13: 9781608195824 Dewey Edition: 23 LCCN: 2013-015957 Author: Edmund White Language: English Book Title: Inside a Pearl : My Years in Paris Number of Pages: 272 Pages Item Weight: 14.1 Oz Item Width: 7.4 in

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  1. Absolutely loved this memoir! Edmund White’s vivid storytelling transports you to Paris, capturing its charm and his personal journey with elegance and wit. A must-read for anyone who adores memoirs or the City of Light.

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