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The Married Man
by Edmund White
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In Edmund White's highly autobiographical novel, Austin Smith, a man from an aristocratic Southern family, moves to the Ile St. Louis in Paris and begins an affair with Julien, who is not only 20 years younger but married and in the throes of a divorce. Eventually, the two men move to Providence, R.I., where Austin has a teaching job, and Julien discovers that he has AIDS. As his health worsens, another man enters their lives--one of Austin's ex-lovers, also a victim of AIDS. By means of the dynamics among these three, Edmund White has much to say about love versus egotism. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Also a 2001 nominee for a Lambda Literary Award.
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9780375400056,
Hardcover,
Random House Inc,
2000
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9780679781448,
Paperback,
Vintage Books,
2001
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Publisher Notes
Romantic sparks fly when a lonely fiftysomething American furniture scholar falls in love with a married woman much younger than himself. By the author of The Farewell Symphony.
Media Reviews
"Many of White's distinctive gifts are in evidence here: his tart humour, his smart cross-cultural commentary, and above all his ability to write beautiful prose....Unfortunately..., from a writer capable of such graceful precision, it is painful to encounter language which is often slack and lazy....More threatening to the novel's emotional impact is White's uneven hand with detail....White's uneven pacing in this focused tale may not be surprising when one considers that he is a writer most at home with the broad canvas, the vivid catalogue...."
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