From the rear cover
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 naivete 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
From the jacket flap
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 naivete 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
Details
- Title Caracole
- Author Edmund White
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage Inte
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage
- Date 1996-05-28
- ISBN 9780679764168 / 067976416X
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.62 x 5.38 x 0.77 in (21.89 x 13.67 x 1.96 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Fantastic fiction, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95043463
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times, 06/09/1996, Page 36
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