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The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

Hardcover • 2018 • English

The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

By Edmund White

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About the book

Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels. But it wasn't until heart surgery in 2014, when h...Show more

Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Biography and non-fiction prose
Literature: history and criticism

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ISBN

9781635571172

Published year

2018

Language

English

Original title

The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

Format

Hardcover

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