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The Burning Library Essays

Edmund White

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. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

GenresLiterary CollectionsEssaysLiterary CriticismSocial ScienceLGBTQ+ StudiesGay Studies

English edition · First published 1996 by Random House Value Publishing · ISBN 9780517170106

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