Caracole by White, Edmund

Caracole (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679764168)

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Caracole by White, Edmund

Caracole

$15.00
Caracole by White, Edmund

Caracole

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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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 na vet and sexual ardor make him endlessly attractive to a variety of patrons and paramours.

"A seduction through language, a masque without masks, Caracole brings back to startling life a dormant strain in serious American writing: the idea of the romantic."--Cynthia Ozick

Author: Edmund White
ISBN-10: 067976416X
ISBN-13: 9780679764168
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/28/1996
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.38w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/09/1996 pg. 36
By Edmund White
By Edmund White
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Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony, as well as Caracole, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and Skinned Alive, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America--States of Desire--and Our Paris. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.

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