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by Edmund White
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Along with his groundbreaking essays that redefine politics, language, identity, and friendship in the light of gay experience and desire, this magisterial collection of 25 years of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons as diverse as Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe and the singer formerly known as Prince.
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Along with his groundbreaking essays that redefine politics, language, identity, and friendship in the light of gay experience and desire, this magisterial collection of 25 years of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons as diverse as Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe and the singer formerly known as Prince. Reading tour.
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- Title The Burning Library: Essays
- Author Edmund White
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage pape
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1995-10-31
- ISBN 9780679754749 / 0679754741
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.21 x 0.93 in (20.27 x 13.23 x 2.36 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Topical: Lgbt
- Category Sociology
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.38
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- New York Times, 12/24/1995, Page 16
- Publishers Weekly, 10/16/1995, Page 0
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