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Forgetting Elena: A Novel

by Edmund White

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Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White''s first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community where Forg... Read more
Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White''s first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community where Forgetting Elena takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White''s excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one''s bathroom habits to the composition of "spontaneous" poetry is subject to rigid conventions. Less

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File size8 X 5.2 X 0.5 in
Print pages192
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date October 4, 1994
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780679755739
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Edmund White
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Edmund White is an award-winning and prolific writer. His work, which includes the novel Our Young Man and the memoir The Flâneur, has revitalised American literature, breaking down boundaries of cla...

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