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Arts and Letters
Edmund White
出版Cleis Press Start, 2006-10-01
主題Literary Collections / EssaysSocial Science / EssaysSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN15734457389781573445733
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MwBuDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A dazzling collection of profiles and interviews by the preeminent American cultural essayist of our time.

In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best-selling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good humor to illuminate some of the most influential writers, artists, and cultural icons of the past century: among them, Marcel Proust, Catherine Deneuve, George Eliot, Andy Warhol, André Gide, David Geffen, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Whether he’s praising Nabokov’s sensuality, or critiquing Elton John’s walk (“as though he’s a wind-up doll that’s been overwound and sent heading for the top of the stairs”), or describing serendipitous moments in his seven-year-long research into the life of Genet, White is unfailingly observant, erudite, and entertaining.