The farewell symphony : a novel

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Title:

The farewell symphony : a novel

Author:

White, Edmund, 1940-

ISBN:

9780679434771

Personal Author:

White, Edmund, 1940-

Publication Information:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c1997.

Physical Description:

413 p. ; 24 cm.

Abstract:

A writer looks back on a decade of homosexual affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. In the process he describes the gay man's dilemma, on the one hand he wants the right to be different, on the other he wants to be accepted as normal.

Subject Term:

Gay men -- Fiction.

Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117

Genre:

Fictional autobiographies (OCoLC)fst01726528

Autobiographical fiction.

Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random058/97073825.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random049/97073825.html

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A literary event: the long-awaited final passage of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. In this successor to A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room Is Empty, White provides a stunning narrative of one man's struggle to succeed as a writer and to discover what it means for a man to be gay.