The Loves of My Life by Edmund White
From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex.
Exhaustively wonderfulAn unflinching, romantic, and generous climax by a bright star in our literary constellation. The gayest book ever written * Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat *
Melancholy, erratic, wise and often ravishingly beautiful, this is just what you want from a book about sex. It’s as messy, risky and emotional as the act itself – an old-age testament that bears witness not just to Ed’s legendary frankness, but also to his life-long commitment to finding new ways of writing who we might be, have been and are * Neil Bartlett, author of Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall *
Ecstatic, so funny, tender, very hot - a scintillating romp with a literary lion. Daddy's diary fully delivers, pungent and real, teeming with gasp-worthy disclosures, as illuminating as it is filthy. * Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar *
One of the patron saints of queer literature, a new book from Edmund White is always a cause for celebration. The Loves of My Life feels like the culmination of a profound wisdom - wry, hilarious, moving, and brilliantly unreserved. This litany of lovers becomes a sort of community in itself, full of vitality and difference. White is still breaking taboos in the most joyous and virtuoso style * Seán Hewitt, author of All Down Darkness Wide *
A journey through the uplit plains of lust, desire, sex, and belonging – utter perfection … a powerful reminder to take nothing for granted not even shared orgasm or the end of oppression * Michael Cashman, author of One of Them *
Edmund White’s The Loves of My Life is a raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom. White asks all the right questions, forcing me to expand much of what I imagined about desire and longing. * Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets *
I don’t know anyone, except Edmund White, who’s had ‘thousands of sex partners.’ I definitely don’t know anyone who writes so ebulliently about former lovers. In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White’s love of sex makes us proud to human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving (and very funny!) novel. * John Irving *
The books by 80-year-old American novelist, memoirist and essayist Edmund White—honest, fierce and joyful explorations of love, sex and family—have been breaking boundaries and engaging readers for nearly 50 years. * AARP *
Nearly 50 years after the great Edmund White co-authored The Joy of Gay Sex, we get even more joy, more candor, and more of White's peerless literary style in a witty and highly personal memoir devoted to a lifelong love of sex, and of sex and love. Fabulous - and inspiring! * Bill Hayes, author of Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me *
Melancholy, erratic, wise and often ravishingly beautiful, this is just what you want from a book about sex. It’s as messy, risky and emotional as the act itself – an old-age testament that bears witness not just to Ed’s legendary frankness, but also to his life-long commitment to finding new ways of writing who we might be, have been and are * Neil Bartlett, author of Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall *
Ecstatic, so funny, tender, very hot - a scintillating romp with a literary lion. Daddy's diary fully delivers, pungent and real, teeming with gasp-worthy disclosures, as illuminating as it is filthy. * Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar *
One of the patron saints of queer literature, a new book from Edmund White is always a cause for celebration. The Loves of My Life feels like the culmination of a profound wisdom - wry, hilarious, moving, and brilliantly unreserved. This litany of lovers becomes a sort of community in itself, full of vitality and difference. White is still breaking taboos in the most joyous and virtuoso style * Seán Hewitt, author of All Down Darkness Wide *
A journey through the uplit plains of lust, desire, sex, and belonging – utter perfection … a powerful reminder to take nothing for granted not even shared orgasm or the end of oppression * Michael Cashman, author of One of Them *
Edmund White’s The Loves of My Life is a raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom. White asks all the right questions, forcing me to expand much of what I imagined about desire and longing. * Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets *
I don’t know anyone, except Edmund White, who’s had ‘thousands of sex partners.’ I definitely don’t know anyone who writes so ebulliently about former lovers. In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White’s love of sex makes us proud to human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving (and very funny!) novel. * John Irving *
The books by 80-year-old American novelist, memoirist and essayist Edmund White—honest, fierce and joyful explorations of love, sex and family—have been breaking boundaries and engaging readers for nearly 50 years. * AARP *
Nearly 50 years after the great Edmund White co-authored The Joy of Gay Sex, we get even more joy, more candor, and more of White's peerless literary style in a witty and highly personal memoir devoted to a lifelong love of sex, and of sex and love. Fabulous - and inspiring! * Bill Hayes, author of Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me *
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 | 9781526686701 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526686708 |
| Title | The Loves of My Life |
| Author | Edmund White |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2025-01-28 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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