The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. First impression. Size: 12mo (small). 225 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. An insightful account of the key role reading has played in the life of literary icon Edmund White Edmund White made his name as a writer, but he remembers his life through the books he read. For White, each momentous occasion came with books to Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels. Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a compendium of all the ways reading has shaped White's life and work. With characteristic wit and candour, he recalls reading Henry James to Peggy Guggenheim in her private gondola in Venice, and phone calls at eight o'clock in the morning to Vladimir Nabokov - who once said that White was his favourite American writer. Featuring writing that has appeared in The New York Review of Books , The Paris Review and The Times Literary Supplement , among others, The Unpunished Vice is a wickedly smart and insightful account of a life in literature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Modern; Literature & Literary. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781408870273. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10559. . 9781408870273