The Loves of My Life

A Sex Memoir

De: Edmund White

Narrado por: Joel Froomkin

Bloomsbury presents The Loves of My Life by the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. Read by Joel Froomkin.

“In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White’s love of sex makes us proud to be human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving (and very funny!) novel.” —John Irving

"A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom." —Robert Jones, Jr.

I’m at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them—for me it would be thousands of sex partners.
The 85-year-old “paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times) recounts the sixty-plus years of sexual escapades that have inspired his many masterpieces. He explores the sex he had with other closeted boys of the 50s Midwest, with women as a young man trying to be straight, the sex he’s paid for and been paid for, sex during the Stonewall and HIV eras, and in the age of the apps. Through tales of transactional sex, mutual admiration, open relationships, domination, submission, love, and loss, he paints an indelible portrait of queer history in America and abroad in a way only someone who has lived through it can.

Written with White’s signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.©2025 Edmund White (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Outstanding narration

There is no one better than Edmund White to write about gay debauchery with such marvelous eloquence. Goodness---who knew c$&ks and holes could sound like fancy dinner table conversation. Narration by Joel Froomkin was absolutely outstanding. He nailed how I would expect Edmund White to sound. Enjoyable tales here cementing some important gay history---good read (not for your mother though).

A great ode from Edmund

This is a great personal tell all kind of book. If you like White's novels, this will be enjoyable to you. Not hiding behind any characters, Edmund brings us into his honest and true world that is what influences his writing. Raw, direct, sexy, funny. AND the reader was just fantastic.

Entertaining Sexploits

Random and Randy stories of lust, desire and a unique gay life. Some of these stories may be exaggerated, and others embellished, but it’s a ton of fun.

Naughty

It was a fun romp from Mr Whites teensn to his 80's. I highly recommend this book

Not a lot there

I felt outside of most of what Edmund White was sharing although what he shares is certainly considered personal. He gets points for dipping into TMI, not that I thought he would avoid doing so. There’s plenty of humor and the affectations of the narrator work for the most part but also became a bit grating at times—the way he extends a single word was done a few too many times for my taste.

There’s only so much talk about butt f***ing, surprisingly large phalluses, and water sports that can be shared before it becomes redundant. Ultimately, the stories feel thin (as well as admittedly unorganized) and while he speaks to what was meaningful about many of these connections and encounters, I was left hoping I’d care more about him than I do.

too bad the narrator is not great

he mispronounces so many French and Spanish words (instead of coño he says cono which is an ice cream cone?) and does this pompous/breathless speech affectaction that makes Ed seem like a jerk and not the sensitive man he is. but the stories and descriptions are indeed delicious amd surprisingly frank and revealing!

Greatly entertaining!

Walk along this path over decades with Edmund..and feel the road traveled beneath your own feet

Does not compare favorably to White's other books

Go reread one of White's earlier books instead. This was a disappointment. If you're new to White, don't start here.

The wrong reader

The text is OK, a collection of recollections that feel as if they have been pilfered from his other books, but the reader is truly awful, arch, melodramatic and affected.