The Loves of My Life
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Joel Froomkin
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Edmund White
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Bloomsbury presents The Loves of My Life by the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. Read by Joel Froomkin.
“In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White’s love of sex makes us proud to be human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving (and very funny!) novel.” —John Irving
"A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom." —Robert Jones, Jr.
I’m at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them—for me it would be thousands of sex partners.
The 85-year-old “paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times) recounts the sixty-plus years of sexual escapades that have inspired his many masterpieces. He explores the sex he had with other closeted boys of the 50s Midwest, with women as a young man trying to be straight, the sex he’s paid for and been paid for, sex during the Stonewall and HIV eras, and in the age of the apps. Through tales of transactional sex, mutual admiration, open relationships, domination, submission, love, and loss, he paints an indelible portrait of queer history in America and abroad in a way only someone who has lived through it can.
Written with White’s signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 70
In the New York 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.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pretense upon pretense.
- De Shalin Desai en 06-01-15
De: Edmund White
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Inside a Pearl
- My Years in Paris
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was 43 years old, couldn’t speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left 15 years later to take a teaching position in the U.S., he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and TV, and in his work as a journalist, he’d made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tiresome
- De kgohl en 01-05-15
De: Edmund White
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Hello Stranger
- Musings on Modern Intimacies
- De: Manuel Betancourt
- Narrado por: Manuel Betancourt
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Hello Stranger is a book about chance encounters—at a bar, through social media, in a bathhouse—and what a stranger can reveal about who we are and who we could still yet be. A stranger, after all, is a site of endless possibilities. As Manuel Betancourt looks back on his past relationships, he turns to characters and narratives that helped him question notions of what monogamy and coupledom (and relationships and marriage) can and should look like.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relatable and intimate
- De helviz javier vanegas en 05-30-25
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Disorderly Men
- A Novel
- De: Edward Cahill
- Narrado por: Eric Fox
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Three gay men in pre-Stonewall New York City find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village bar. The three men find themselves in a police wagon together, their hidden lives threatened to be revealed to the world. Blackmail, a private investigator, Gus’s disappearance, and Danny’s quest for retribution propel Disorderly Men to its piercing conclusion, as each man meets the boundaries of his own fear, love, and shame. The stakes for each are different, but all of them confront a fundamental question: How much happiness is he allowed to have . . .
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Sneailky Relatable Book!
- De John Latona en 10-09-23
De: Edward Cahill
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The Humble Lover
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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General2.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 6
Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he decides he must have him. Soon they strike up a closeness that falls between the blurry lines of friendship, sponsorship, and love, and August moves in with Aldwych. But eventually August starts bringing home other men, and a formidable woman in Aldwych's circle named Ernestine also takes a deep interest in the enchanting young star.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What happened to white?
- De Clark Freshman en 01-31-24
De: Edmund White
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Sacred Monsters
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
Edmund White is one of our most celebrated novelists. He is also a brilliant journalist and cultural commentator on the arts, contributing to publications as varied The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Washington Post, House and Garden, and The New York Review of Books. In Sacred Monsters, White collects more than 20 of his most recent writings on artists and authors, including John Cheever, Patti Smith, Henry James, Mary Cassatt, and many others.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No chapter headings make it an editorial mess
- De Francoise en 09-21-19
De: Edmund White
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All Down Darkness Wide
- A Memoir
- De: Seán Hewitt
- Narrado por: Seán Hewitt
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it’s like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one’s deep depression. As lives are made and unmade, this memoir asks what love can endure and what it cannot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The very deepest end of the pool
- De Gary Francis Burnham en 05-27-23
De: Seán Hewitt
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In Tongues
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Grattan
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon—handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction—takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him—and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging, smart and witty storytelling!
- De Bruce Cannella en 09-30-24
De: Thomas Grattan
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The World of Normal Boys
- A Novel
- De: K.M. Soehnlein
- Narrado por: Blake Kevin Dwyer
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
As his family falls apart day by day, Robin finds himself pulling away from the unquestioned, unexamined life that has been carefully laid out for him. Small acts of rebellion lead to larger questions of what it means to stand on his own. Falling into a fevered triangle with two other outcasts, Todd Spicer and Scott Schatz, Robin embarks on an explosive odyssey of sexual self-discovery that will take him beyond the spring-green lawns of suburbia, beyond the fraying fabric barely holding together his quickly unraveling family, and into a complex future, beyond the world of normal boys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad and Amazing
- De Shaun England en 04-13-24
De: K.M. Soehnlein
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The Line of Beauty
- A Novel
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: Joe Jameson
- Duración: 17 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby—whom Nick had idolized at Oxford—and Catherine, who is highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Prose
- De Andre en 03-13-25
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Henry Henry
- De: Allen Bratton
- Narrado por: Sebastian Humphreys
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
It’s London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding pattern: his mother is dead, his father is dying or remarrying or both, his siblings are fighting, his internship is pointless, and nobody will leave him alone. Everything is as it should be and yet nothing is right. Over the course of a year of partying, drinking, and flirting to dubious consequence, Hal is tested by brutal family legacies, Catholic guilt, and the terrifying possibility of being loved. The House of Lancaster will never be the same.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well written -Dissapointing
- De John en 04-22-24
De: Allen Bratton
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Arts and Letters
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 14 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12
Best-selling novelist, memoirist, and biographer Edmund White displays his sharp wit and boundless erudition in 37 portraits of the writers, artists, and cultural icons who have captured his curiosity and imagination for the last 20 years. White is as compelling as he is unpretentious in these stories of his encounters with some of the most provocative writers, artists, and personalities of our time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ok, but not what I was hoping for
- De Sarah en 03-02-14
De: Edmund White
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The Boy in the Rain
- De: Stephanie Cowell
- Narrado por: Philip Battley
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
It is 1903 in the English countryside when Robbie, a shy young art student, meets the twenty-nine-year-old Anton who is running from memories of his brutal childhood and failed marriage. Within months, they begin a love affair that will never let them go. Robbie grows into an accomplished portraitist in the vivid London art world with the help of Anton's enchanting former wife, while Anton turns from his inherited wealth and connections to improve the conditions of the poor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An entrancing, unforgettable journey into the past
- De echolocation345 en 09-08-23
De: Stephanie Cowell
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Our Evenings
- A Novel
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: Prasanna Puwanarajah
- Duración: 16 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sublime Collaboration
- De Phip Herrick en 11-20-24
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The Married Man
- A Novel
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 16
Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins to catch up with them. In a desperate quest to save health and happiness, they move from Venice to Key West, from Montreal in the snow to Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Keep away from this one
- De JEU en 08-21-19
De: Edmund White
Naughty
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too bad the narrator is not great
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A great ode from Edmund
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Entertaining Sexploits
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Does not compare favorably to White's other books
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The wrong reader
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