The Farewell Symphony Paperback - 1998
by Edmund White
Concluding the trilogy that began with "A Boy's Own Story" and "The Beautiful Room Is Empty", White creates a novel of opulent sensuality that is at once the story of a writer's education and an elegy for the gay world that flourished between the time of Stonewall and the present.
From the jacket flap
Following "A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed "The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy.
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. His witty, conversational narrative transports us from the 1960s to the near present, from starkly erotic scenes in the back rooms of New York clubs to episodes of rarefied hilarity in the salons of Paris to moments of family truth in the American Midwest. Along the way, a breathtaking variety of personal connections--and near misses--slowly builds an awareness of the transformative power of genuine friendship, of love and loss, culminating in an indelible experience with a dying man. And as the flow of memory carries us across time, space and society, one man's magnificently realized story grows to encompass an entire generation. Sublimely funny yet elegiac, full of unsparingly trenchant social observation yet infused with wisdom and a deeply felt compassion, The Farewell Symphony is a triumph of reflection and expressive elegance. It is also a stunning and wholly original panorama of gay life over the past thirty years--the crowning achievement of one of our finest writers.
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- Title The Farewell Symphony
- Author Edmund White
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage inte
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-09-01
- ISBN 9780679754763 / 0679754768
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.26 x 0.97 in (20.32 x 13.36 x 2.46 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Library of Congress subjects Gay men, Autobiographical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98026443
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times, 11/01/1998, Page 36
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