Forgetting Elena: A Novel

Type

Book

Authors

Edmund White

ISBN 10

067975573X

ISBN 13

9780679755739

Tags

Gay, Criticism & Theory, Literary

Description

Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community where Forgetting Elena takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one's bathroom habits to the composition of "spontaneous" poetry is subject to rigid conventions. - from Amzon

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