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- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising - and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink - The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written
- De Andrei en 07-01-19
De: Edmund White
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The Burning Library
- Essays
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 13
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best of Edmund White . . . Until the next Collection
- De R.J. Schmigel en 04-21-23
De: Edmund White
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Christopher and His Kind
- De: Christopher Isherwood
- Narrado por: James Clamp
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 83
Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable 10 years in the writer's life, from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. When the book was published in 1976, readers were deeply impressed by the courageous candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, Heinz, from the Nazis.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Decadence in 1930s Germany
- De Christo en 01-20-16
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The Farewell Symphony
- A Novel
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 20 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Tremendous book
- De William Thomas en 11-26-18
De: Edmund White
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Caracole
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 6
In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembles both Paris under the Nazis and 1980s New York. To that city comes Gabriel, an awkward boy from the provinces whose social naïveté and sexual ardor make him endlessly attractive to a variety of patrons and paramours.
De: Edmund White
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Jack Holmes and His Friend
- A Novel
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
Jack Holmes is in love, but the man he loves never shares his bed. The other men Jack sleeps with never last long and he dallies with several women. Jack's friend, Will Wright, comes from old stock, has aspirations to be a writer, and like Jack works on the Northern Review, a staid cultural quarterly. Will is shy and lonely-and Jack introduces him to the beautiful, brittle young woman he will marry. Over the years Will discovers his sensuality and almost destroys his marriage in doing so.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wrong Reader for This Material
- De MyDogBen en 11-01-14
De: Edmund White
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The Humble Lover
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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General2.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 6
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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1 out of 5 stars
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What happened to white?
- De Clark Freshman en 01-31-24
De: Edmund White
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Forgetting Elena
- A Novel
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator not for me
- De Matthew en 03-30-16
De: Edmund White
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The New Life
- A Novel
- De: Tom Crewe
- Narrado por: Freddie Fox
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
In the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that homosexuality, which is a crime at the time, is a natural, harmless variation of human sexuality. Though they have never met, John and Henry both live in London with their wives, Catherine and Edith, and in each marriage, there is a third party: John has a lover, a working-class man named Frank, and Edith spends almost as much time with her friend Angelica as she does with Henry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant historical fiction
- De Shrewsie Shrew en 01-15-23
De: Tom Crewe
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We Could Be So Good
- A Novel
- De: Cat Sebastian
- Narrado por: Joel Leslie
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Nick Russo has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood to a reporting job at one of the city’s biggest newspapers. But the late 1950s are a hostile time for gay men, and Nick knows that he can’t let anyone into his life. He just never counted on meeting someone as impossible to say no to as Andy. Andy Fleming’s newspaper-tycoon father wants him to take over the family business. Andy, though, has no intention of running the paper. He’s barely able to run his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Be still, my cynical heart.
- De Kelsey Riddle en 06-09-23
De: Cat Sebastian
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Sacred Monsters
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución3 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- 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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Total2 out of 5 stars
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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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