Inside a Pearl by Edmund White
A literary treat: a memoir of Edmund White's years among the cultural and intellectual elite of 1980s Paris
Paris may well be White’s pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl.. This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund White … Entertaining and wry, White is worldly-wise and wise * Eileen Battersby, Irish Times *
Edmund White writing about his Paris years, with walk-on parts for Catherine Deneuve, Yves Saint-Laurent and other assorted members of the French glitterati? That’d be Inside a Pearl * Scotsman *
There is at once something artfully canny and beguilingly innocent about Inside a Pearl … You want to hold on to him, will him to live more, live longer and write about more years * Independent *
We are lucky to have him still publishing … diverting, affectionate as well as bitchy, and full of tips * London Evening Standard *
In the end, this dazzling memoir isn’t just a love song to a city – a city “so calm” it is “like living inside a pearl” – but profoundly moving elegy to a friend * Sunday Times *
Edmund White writing about his Paris years, with walk-on parts for Catherine Deneuve, Yves Saint-Laurent and other assorted members of the French glitterati? That’d be Inside a Pearl * Scotsman *
There is at once something artfully canny and beguilingly innocent about Inside a Pearl … You want to hold on to him, will him to live more, live longer and write about more years * Independent *
We are lucky to have him still publishing … diverting, affectionate as well as bitchy, and full of tips * London Evening Standard *
In the end, this dazzling memoir isn’t just a love song to a city – a city “so calm” it is “like living inside a pearl” – but profoundly moving elegy to a friend * Sunday Times *
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 | 9781408837764 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408837765 |
| Title | Inside a Pearl |
| Author | Edmund White |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2015-02-26 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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