The Farewell Symphony
Edmund White has long been praised as one of America's most accomplished novelists.The Farewell Symphonyis the final volume in the autobiographical trilogy that began withA Boy's Own StoryandThe Beautiful Room Is Empty. It details the narrator's life in New York in the 1970s and his flight to Paris as the AIDS epidemic begins. White's prose, at once lucid and magical, is the essence of great writing. Its plainspoken cadences and language resonate with the tragedy of youthful passion giving way to hard-earned knowledge. Like Sherwood Anderson or Theodore Dreiser, White has captured the soul of the American experience--in this case a gay male experience--and made it into art.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.