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Title: Forgetting Elena : A Novel by Edmund White ISBN: 0-679-75573-X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 October, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: enigmatic tale works on several levels
Comment: This is a classic novel, and one that works on several levels. A satire of Fire Island gay culture? Yes, but it works even if you have no idea that this is what the book is supposed to be "about," as I didn't when I first read it years ago. The prose is seamlessly perfect, and the device of the amnesiac narrator, which shouldn't work, actually does.
Rating: 4
Summary: Forgetting Elena
Comment: This is not an easy book. It is striking and memorable. If you read it more for the immediate effect of the imagery rather than try to figure out a plot or the characters, it is much more rewarding. I'm not knowledgeable about the model of Fire Island society but that is secondary anyway. If you are looking for a real page-turner, this book is not for you. If you read slowly and visualize what the author describes, you will be amply rewarded.This book may be about life on a beach but it is not a "beach book."
Rating: 5
Summary: A perfect work
Comment: A vanished gay culture and setting (recognizably The Pines in the 1960s) transformed into an icy fantasy, with details borrowed from the ceremonial court life of ancient Japan and Java. An amnesiac narrator finds himself in an imaginary island society, at once funny and horrific, where refined, ever-changing rules govern the slightest action. He must somehow deduce his own identity from the enigmatic offhand remarks of others around him while not giving himself away.
Though infused with a gay sensibility, this is not a "gay book". In it, obsessive aestheticism and obsessive love face each other, gradually becoming deadly enemies.
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Title: Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White ISBN: 0312022638 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Beautiful Room Is Empty : A Novel by Edmund White ISBN: 0679755403 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Blow-Up : And Other Stories by Julio Cortazar ISBN: 0394728815 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1985 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane ISBN: 0142437344 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Embers by SANDOR MARAI ISBN: 0375707425 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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