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Book Description: Bloomsbury USA 2009-09-29, 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. First Edition. Crisp, clean new hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. Tight and square with sharp corners. Bloomsbury USA, New York, 2009. 304 pages. Stated First US Edition with full number line. - - Carefully packed and promptly shipped with tracking provided. Bookseller Inventory # b7s1-091230-h01

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Book Description: BLOOMSBURY, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9781596914025

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Book Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 155mm x 27mm x 214mm. 297 pages. 0.426. Bookseller Inventory # 9781596914025

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Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s, Edmund White, An irresistible literary treat: a memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White. In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in "City Boy": a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult. Combining the no-holds-barred confession and yearning of "A Boy's Own Story "with the easy erudition and sense of place of "The Flaneur," this is the story of White's years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to erotic entanglements downtown to the burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers. I t's a moving, candid, brilliant portrait of a time and place, full of encounters with famous names and cultural icons. An esteemed novelist and cultural critic, Edmund White is the author of many books, including the autobiographical novel "A Boy's Own Story"; a previous memoir, "My Lives"; and most recently a biography of poet Arthur Rimbaud. White lives in New York City and teaches writing at Princeton University. An irresistible literary treat: a memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White. In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in "City Boy": a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult. Combining the no-holds-barred confession and yearning of "A Boy's Own Story "with the easy erudition and sense of place of "The Flaneur," this is the story of White's years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to erotic entanglements downtown to the burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers. I t's a moving, candid, brilliant portrait of a time and place, full of encounters with famous names and cultural icons. "[A] moving chronicle . . . that peacock's tail, those stag's antlers--they're here, to be sure, but so are vulnerability, doubt, failure and long years toiling at the sort of cruddy day jobs that most literary writers know all too well . . . In "City Boy," White is amusing and raucous as ever but he also lets the mask slip.his losses and struggles, as consequence, seems less sculpted, but more real . . . Some stories don't need to be embellished to glow."--"The New York Times Book Review" "An open-throttled tour of New York City during the bad old days of the 1960s and early '70s . . . it's all here in exacting and eye-popping detail . . . There is a great deal of sex and gossip in "City Boy," but it is also a minor-key account of Mr. White's coming of age as a writer . . . "City Boy" is Mr. White's second memoir in three years, and a great deal of his fiction has been autobiographical. You get the sense of a writer slowly peeling his life like an artichoke, letting only a few stray leaves go at a time . . . This one is salty and buttery, for sure. Mr. White's 'Oh, come on, guys' meekness has vanished into thin air."--"The New York Times" "Chronicl[es]Gotham's cultural highs and lows during those two heady and iconic decades . . . fleshing out our notion of how vital a period the '60s and '70s were . . . Since White is a born raconteur, his gimlet-eyed anecdotes about celeb. Bookseller Inventory # B9781596914025

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Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United States, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 214 x 155 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. An irresistible literary treat: a memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White. In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in "City Boy" a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult. Combining the no-holds-barred confession and yearning of "A Boy's Own Story "with the easy erudition and sense of place of "The Flaneur," this is the story of White's years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to erotic entanglements downtown to the burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers. I t's a moving, candid, brilliant portrait of a time and place, full of encounters with famous names and cultural icons. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9781596914025

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Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 8.44 by 6 inches. (00297 pages) [ships from USA takes 8-14 days to Europe] Lang=English accessory:NO ACCESSORY (Hardcover ). Bookseller Inventory # AF1596914025

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Book Description: BLOOMSBURY, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9781596914025

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Book Description: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. first edition edition. 304 pages. 8.30x5.70x1.20 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # x-1596914025

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Book Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 155mm x 27mm x 214mm. 297 pages. 0.426. Bookseller Inventory # 9781596914025

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