Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White
A moving, expertly-crafted novel from one of New York's most prolific and well-respected authors
Edmund White has three voicesFirst there is the storyteller, relaxed, conversational, an anecdotalist, an inspired flaneur. Then there is the poet: on every page there lies in wait a metaphor of startling precision, an image that holds and reattracts the eye. And then there is the laic philosopher, who observes human life from the highest altitudes, held aloft by vast infusions of erudition and experience. In Jack Holmes and His Friend, White's trio is in frictionless accord * Martin Amis *
This comedy of sexual manners may be White's finest novel * Sunday Times *
Wise, funny, sympathetic and richly entertaining novel * Boyd Tonkin, Independent *
There's a sleek, close-shaved quality to White's prose that in passages gives it the warm lubicriousness of early Updike and the dry martini sting of Cheever * Financial Times *
It will make you smile with admiration * Evening Standard *
Marks White out as an immensely gifted chronicler of the intricacies of the human heart * Alex Clark, Guardian *
Lucid and powerful ... White is a novelist of great insight * Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph *
An elegant study of the paradoxes and half-truths that emerge in long-standing friendships * New Yorker *
White's talent remains undiminished * Daily Mail *
This comedy of sexual manners may be White's finest novel * Sunday Times *
Wise, funny, sympathetic and richly entertaining novel * Boyd Tonkin, Independent *
There's a sleek, close-shaved quality to White's prose that in passages gives it the warm lubicriousness of early Updike and the dry martini sting of Cheever * Financial Times *
It will make you smile with admiration * Evening Standard *
Marks White out as an immensely gifted chronicler of the intricacies of the human heart * Alex Clark, Guardian *
Lucid and powerful ... White is a novelist of great insight * Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph *
An elegant study of the paradoxes and half-truths that emerge in long-standing friendships * New Yorker *
White's talent remains undiminished * Daily Mail *
Edmund White was the author of many novels, including A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, A Saint from Texas, and The Humble Lover. His nonfiction included City Boy, Inside a Pearl, The Unpunished Vice, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. 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. He lived in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408830277 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408830272 |
| Title | Jack Holmes and His Friend |
| Author | Edmund White |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2013-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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