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Category: Edmund White

Posted on December 3, 2012June 27, 2016 by Roof Beam Reader · 4 Comments

Review: Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White (The Green Carnation Prize)

This is Book #1 for our Green Carnation Prize reading project.  For more information on the project and on the Green Carnation Prize itself, please visit This Post. About the Book: Format: Hardcover Published: January 1st, 2012 Publisher: Bloomsbury UK Description: “Jack Holmes and Will Wright arrive in New York in the calm before the…

Posted on May 21, 2010June 11, 2016 by Roof Beam Reader

Review: Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White

Summary: The Beautiful Room is Empty picks up shortly after where White's earlier memoir, A Boy's Own Story, leaves off.  This work discusses not just the growth of boy-into-man, but also gives a historical account of the period. The 1950s and 1960s – the rise and fall of the Beatniks.  The advent of hipsters.  The…

Posted on January 11, 2010June 11, 2016 by Roof Beam Reader

Review: A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White

A refreshingly realistic tale of a gay boy's "coming of age." White makes a point of expressing his distaste for fanciful boy's tales in which all boarding schools are brothels of young sex and violence, then proceeds to tell a painfully true story (autobiographic) about a youth growing up confused - his mother's companion, his…

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