{"product_id":"the-loves-of-my-life-edmund-white","title":"The Loves of My Life (Edmund White)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eVULTURE \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony.\" -Robert Jones, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"White's love of sex makes us proud to be human.\" -John Irving\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI'm at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them-for me it would be thousands of sex partners\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his final memoir, the 85-year-old \"paterfamilias of queer literature\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) recounted the seventy-plus years of sexual escapades that inspired his many masterpieces. Through tales of transactional sex, mutual admiration, open relationships, domination, submission, love, and loss, he painted an indelible portrait of queer history in America and abroad in a way only someone who has lived through it can.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with White's signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, \u003ci\u003eThe Loves of My Life\u003c\/i\u003e is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEdmund White (1940-2025)\u003c\/b\u003e authored more than thirty works of fiction, memoir, and nonfiction, including the novels \u003ci\u003eA Boy's Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Our Young Man\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Humble Lover; \u003c\/i\u003ethe memoirs \u003ci\u003eCity Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInside a Pearl\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Unpunished Vice;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Flâneur\u003c\/i\u003e, a tour through Paris; the literary biographies \u003ci\u003eGenet \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRimbaud\u003c\/i\u003e; and many more. His most recent work, the sexual autobiography \u003ci\u003eThe Loves of My Life\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice. He 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), With dust jacket, Englisch, 256 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65775860449629,"sku":"K098311569","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9831156900001A.jpg?v=1788282030","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-loves-of-my-life-edmund-white","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}