Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White $10.00 NZD
Delightful, irreverent, and experimental, A Previous Life proves once more why White is considered a master of American literature.Show more A searing, scintillating take on physical beauty and its inevitable decline, A Previous Life pushes for a broader understanding of sexual orientation and explores the themes of love and age through numerous eyes, hearts and minds. As the two take turns 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. Until now they had a ban on speaking about the past, since transparency had wrecked their previous marriages. Sicilian aristocrat and musician Ruggero, and his younger American wife, Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions. 'Elegant, erudite, raunchy and fun' Andrew Sean Greer 'The best book in Edmund White's long and extraordinary career' Benjamin moser 'Fresh and inventive and wise' Rebecca Makkai A daring, category-confounding and ruthlessly funny novel from Edmund White, exploring polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and
Against this charged backdrop, the different lives of Jack and Will intertwine, and as their loves come and go, they will always be, at the very least, friends.A Previous Life by Edmund White $12.00 NZD Jack will introduce Will to the beautiful, brittle young woman he will marry, but is discreet about his own adventures in love - for this is sixties New York, literary and intense, before gay liberation a concoction of old society, bohemians rich and poor, sleek European immigrants and transplanted Midwesterners. Jack's friend Will Wright comes from old stock, has aspirations to be a writer and, like Jack, works on the Northern Review. It doesn't look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls for: the other men he takes to bed never stay for long.
_ 'This comedy of sexual manners may be White's finest novel' - Sunday Times 'An elegant study of the paradoxes and half-truths that emerge in long-standing friendships' - New Yorker 'Marks White out as an immensely gifted chronicler of the intricacies of the human heart' - Alex Clark, Guardian _ Jack Holmes is suffering from unrequited love.
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