num_pages: 160
description: A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing, intimacy of a stranger's love letters. The intense emotional situation envelops the readers from the first page; like all images in a dream, White's characters are the most real people we know, thought they remain phantoms. Each chapter, each nocturne, is set in a different emotional key, but all are interconnected through such subtle modulations that the final effect is devastating.
language: English
title: Nocturnes for the King of Naples
titlecomplete: Nocturnes for the King of Naples
genres: American, LGBT, Gay, Gay Fiction, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 328
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin