num_pages: 192
description: 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.
language: English
title: Forgetting Elena
titlecomplete: Forgetting Elena
genres: Literature, American, Queer, Literary Fiction, Classics, Novels, LGBT, Gay, Fiction, The United States Of America
ratings_count: 373
publisher: Vintage