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Original Youth
Keith Fleming
其他書名
The Real Story of Edmund White's Boyhood
出版Green Candy Press, 2003
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresBiography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, PublishersLiterary Criticism / American / General
ISBN19311602019781931160209
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mGlbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋It isn't often that a memoirist gets the biographic treatment, but the story of Edmund White's youth was too dramatic to resist. In this bracing true-life tale, Keith Fleming, White's nephew whom he adopted, captures a particularly unusual childhood. Forced to be a confidante to his unhinged mother, terrified and attracted to his imperious father, the teenager White became a Buddhist, a cruiser of hustlers and married men, and an FBI drug informant on his way to ultimate fame as a leading gay literary figure. Drawing on personal knowledge, letters, photographs, and extensive interviews with those closest to Eddie, Fleming neither exploits his subject nor sugar-coats him. Original Youth is a rich portrait of a complex subject and a wild child who managed to survive and flourish against all odds.