Edmund White is one of the best writers of my generation; he's certainly the contemporary American writer I reread more than any other, and the one whose next book I look forward to reading most.

John Irving

Edmund White tells such a good story that I'm ready to to listen to anything he wants to talk about.

The New York Times Book Review on THE FLANEUR

Our Young Man is classic Edmund White, exploring the universal desire to be known, desired, accepted and at what cost. Set against the backdrop of the world of male modeling, Our Young Man takes us from France to Fire Island, exploring ideas of coming of age, coming into one's own, and coming out, themes of family, trust and identity and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic and always, in keeping true to all of Edmund White's work through the years the ineluctable nature of desire and the (sometimes failed) beauty of the human heart

A. M. Homes

Edmund White continues to chronicle, with more insight and compassion than any other writer I could name, the points at which gay life is simultaneously particular unto itself, and contiguous with universal human states. Thank you, Edmund, for insisting on our differences while reminding us, as well, that none of us is truly different, not in our innermost selves

Michael Cunningham

So funny - it's really one of his best - full of life, and so nasty

Andrew Holleran

A playful yet searching novel of gay life in the New York of Ed Koch and Studio 54 … A closely written, multidimensional coming-of-age novel that captures a time of whispers, elaborate codes, and not inconsiderable danger

Kirkus