Skinned Alive: Stories - Paperback
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Skinned Alive: Stories - Paperback
$15.95
by Edmund White (Author)
A collection of powerful and thought-provoking stories that dive deep into the complexities of human relationships
"Wrenching, glorious, seductive . . . urgent and kinetic . . . delectably precise."--San Francisco Examiner The eight stories in this erotic and heartbreaking collection are barometers of difference. They measure the distance between an American expatriate and the Frenchman who tutors him in table manners and rough sex; the gulf between a man dying of AIDS and his uncomprehending relatives.Front Jacket
The eight stories in this erotic and heartbreaking collection are barometers of difference. They measure the distance between an American expatriate and the Frenchman who tutors him in table manners and rough sex; the gulf between a man dying of AIDS and his uncomprehending relatives.
Author Biography
Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony, as well as Caracole, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and Skinned Alive, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America--States of Desire--and Our Paris. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.
Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.66 x 8.07 x 5.24 IN
Publication Date: May 28, 1996
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