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White, Edmund, 1940-
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Married people -- Fiction.
Non-monogamous relationships -- Fiction.
Bisexuality -- Fiction.
Aging -- Fiction.
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White, Edmund, 1940-
Married people -- Fiction.
Non-monogamous relationships -- Fiction.
Bisexuality -- Fiction.
Aging -- Fiction.
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A
previous
life
:
another
posthumous
novel
/ Edmund White.
by
White, Edmund, 1940-
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION WHI
Subjects
Married people -- Fiction.
Non-monogamous relationships -- Fiction.
Bisexuality -- Fiction.
Aging -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781635577273 (hc.)
Description:
270 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
A daring, category-confounding, and ruthlessly funny
novel
from National Book Award honored author Edmund White that explores polyamory and bisexuality, aging and love. Sicilian aristocrat and musician, Ruggero, and his younger American wife, Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions. Until now they had a ban on speaking about the past, since transparency had wrecked their
previous
marriages. As the two alternate reading the memoirs they've written about their lives, Constance reveals her multiple marriages to older men, and Ruggero details the affairs he's had with men and women across his lifetime-most importantly his passionate affair with the author Edmund White. Sweeping outward from the isolated Swiss ski chalet where the couple reads to travel through Europe and the United States, White's new
novel
pushes for a broader understanding of sexual orientation and pairs humor and truth to create his most fascinating and complex characters to date. As in all of White's earlier novels, this is a searing, scintillating take on physical beauty and its inevitable decline. But in this experimental new mode -- one where the author has laid himself bare as a secondary character -- White explores the themes of love and age through numerous eyes, hearts and minds. Delightful, irreverent, and experimental, A
Previous
Life
proves once more why White is considered a master of American literature.
Genre:
2SLGBTQIA+ fiction.
Humorous fiction.
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