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Narrated by:
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Robert Blumenfeld
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By:
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Edmund White
About this listen
Edmund White is one of our most celebrated novelists. He is also a brilliant journalist and cultural commentator on the arts, contributing to publications as varied The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Washington Post, House and Garden, and The New York Review of Books. In Sacred Monsters, White collects more than 20 of his most recent writings on artists and authors, including John Cheever, Patti Smith, Henry James, Mary Cassatt, Paul Bowles, Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Vladimir Nabokov, Auguste Rodin, Edith Wharton, Christopher Isherwood, Martin Amis, Allen Ginsberg, Marguerite Duras, John Rechy, Ford Maddox Ford, David Hockney, Reynolds Price, E. M. Forster, James Abbott McNeil Whistler, and Marcel Proust, among others.
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The audiobook's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to seek out works of art and literature as solace-and to uncover new relationships in the struggle to embrace his own sexuality.
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- Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
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- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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Pretense upon pretense.
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By: Edmund White
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The Farewell Symphony
- A Novel
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man.
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Tremendous book
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By: Edmund White
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The Humble Lover
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he decides he must have him. Soon they strike up a closeness that falls between the blurry lines of friendship, sponsorship, and love, and August moves in with Aldwych. But eventually August starts bringing home other men, and a formidable woman in Aldwych's circle named Ernestine also takes a deep interest in the enchanting young star.
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What happened to white?
- By Clark Freshman on 01-31-24
By: Edmund White
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- JP
- 03-19-23
smart criticism mediocre narration
great essays especially on Mapplethorpe, Henry James, and Nabokov...But the narration is stilted and lacking (and some flubs on pronunciation)
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- Francoise
- 09-21-19
No chapter headings make it an editorial mess
I despise this about audible editions. There are no chapter headings for any chapters. This is infuriating and an editorial stupidity! Why do publishers do this?
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