My Lives - An Autobiography (SIGNED COPY)
by White, Edmund
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0066213975
- ISBN 13
- 9780066213972
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About This Item
New York: Ecco, 2006. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 356 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Black remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, bright copy. No one has been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, starting with A Boy's Own Story, White here takes fiction out of his story and delivers the facts of his life in all their shocking and absorbing verity.From an adolescence in the 1950s, an era that tried to "cure his homosexuality" but found him "unsalvageable," he emerged into a 1960s society that redesignated his orientation as "acceptable (nearly)." He describes a life touched by psychotherapy in every decade, starting with his flamboyant and demanding therapist mother, who considered him her own personal test case -- and personal escort to cocktail lounges after her divorce. His father thought that even wearing a wristwatch was effeminate, though custodial visits to Dad in Cincinnati inadvertently initiated White into the culture of "hustlers and johns" that changed his life. Record # 608897
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 608897
- Title
- My Lives - An Autobiography (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- White, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st US
- ISBN 10
- 0066213975
- ISBN 13
- 9780066213972
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Biography, Literary, , SIGNED.
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- Biography;
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