{"product_id":"the-loves-of-my-life-edmund-white-9781639733729","title":"The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this peerless memoir, the 85-year-old \"paterfamilias of queer literature\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) recounts the sixty-plus years of sexual escapades that have inspired his many masterpieces. He explores the sex he had with other closeted boys in 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 stories 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with White's signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, \u003ci\u003eThe Loves of My Life\u003c\/i\u003e is the culmination of this 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edmund White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639733728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639733729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.51w x 1.00d","brand":"Edmund White","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45898387456255,"sku":"9781639733729","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e4147dca-881b-41d4-a3ec-8b1a057b564d.jpg?v=1721376201","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-loves-of-my-life-edmund-white-9781639733729","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}