The Burning Library: Essays

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About this book

Along with his groundbreaking essays that redefine politics, language, identity, and friendship in the light of gay experience and desire, this magisterial collection of 25 years of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons as diverse as Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe and the singer formerly known as Prince.

Publishers

  • Original publisher English: Vintage

About the author & agent

Author
Edmund White
Peter Straus
Agent
Peter Straus

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