America was, alas, a country of great eccentrics and great … - Edmund White

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America was, alas, a country of great eccentrics and great prudes, of great writers and few readers.

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Edmund White (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. Probably his best-known books are The Joy of Gay Sex (1977) (written with Charles Silverstein) and his trio of autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997).

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Alternative Names: Edmund Valentine White III

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Fréquenter un écrivain, le connaître de près, dans l'espoir de mieux connaître son oeuvre était un exercice inutile et même destructeur.

I sometimes wonder if what I consider “romance” might be dying out — l’amour fou, crazy love, destructive passion, crippling jealousy, extreme and violent and tragic.

Was I grieving because he didn’t possess everything, absolutely everything, or because I owned nothing?

America was, alas, a country of great eccentrics and great prudes, of great writers and few readers. - Edmund White

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