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Skinned Alive (1995)
Set in Europe and America, these
eight stories (many of them autobiographical) explore the
ways we make sense of personal experience: the workings
of desire, in youth and later in life; the yearnings of
intimacy and love; the powers of beauty and jealousy; and
the unpredictable effects of illness and loss. In "Pyrography"
a gay adolescent is torn between his sexual desires and
his longing for acceptance as he goes on a camping trip
with two straight male friends. An American in Crete finds
a new reason for living after the death of his lover in
"An Oracle." "Watermarked" is a moving tribute to a beautiful
young actor, the subject of an early passion. And, perhaps
the funniest story in the collection, "His Biographer" deals
with the ludicrous experience of being the living subject
of a biography, and shows a hilarious encounter between
Old World sophistication and New World political correctness.
Moving, witty and full of audacious
surprises, Skinned
Alive delivers us to a world of comedy in the midst
of tragedy, one peopled by a startling diversity of men
and women. This book gives us the full range of Edmund White's
extraordinary powers of observation and his finely balanced,
musical sense of structure.
- Pyrography
- Running on Empty
- Skinned Alive
- His Biographer
- An Oracle
- Reprise
- Palace Days
- Watermarked
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