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Description
Bloomsbury presents The Loves of My Life by the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. Read by Joel Froomkin.
A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White's love of sex makes us proud to be human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving (and very funny!) novel.” -John Irving
"A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom." -Robert Jones, Jr.
I'm at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them-for me it would be thousands of sex partners.
The 85-year-old “paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times) recounts the sixty-plus years of sexual escapades that have inspired his many masterpieces. He explores the sex he had with other closeted boys of the 50s Midwest, with women as a young man trying to be straight, the sex he's paid for and been paid for, sex during the Stonewall and HIV eras, and in the age of the apps. Through tales of transactional sex, mutual admiration, open relationships, domination, submission, love, and loss, he paints an indelible portrait of queer history in America and abroad in a way only someone who has lived through it can.
Written with White's signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.
Product details
| Published | Jan 28 2025 |
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| Format | Audiobook |
| Duration | 6 hours and 23 minutes |
| ISBN | 9781639733743 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A gaspingly graphic, jaunty and tender sex memoir: a guided tour of gay desire in which libido is the wellspring of just about everything.
New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
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White once estimated he'd had three thousand partners . . . and his prose here, as ever, is so redoubtably stylish that I almost wish he'd enshrined every last tryst in print . . . Line for line, I can't recall the last time I enjoyed reading anything so much.
Harper's Magazine
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One of [White's] best books . . . A brilliant argument for the importance of sex and love.
Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic
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[White] interwove the elegant and the explicit, he expanded the bounds of what could be written about and also how a life could be lived.
Olivia Laing, The Guardian
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“The final offering from one of the most important queer writers of the past century, before he passed away a few months after its publication. A knock-the-wind-out-of-you account of the iconic author's great loves and great sexcapades, living in New York City pre-Stonewall, and pre-AIDS.
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