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See moreA middle-aged American works out in a Paris gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. Slowly, life takes on the colour of romance. But there is sadness in Julien's past and a grim cloud on the horizon.
A searingly honest love story told in White's characteristically beautiful, heart-breaking prose.
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A searingly honest love story told in White's characteristically beautiful, heart-breaking prose.
Poignant and challenging... A love story, yet with an ambition and sweep that make it much more than that... subtle, complex, unsparing and profound — Daily Telegraph
Austin Smith, a middle-aged American, works out in a Paris gym—an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. To Austin's amused astonishment, life takes on the colour of romance.
As they dash between Bohemian suppers and glittering salons, they deal with comic clashes of cultures, of ages, of temperaments. But there is sadness in Julien's past and a grim cloud on the horizon. Soon, with increasing desperation, their quest for health and happiness drives them to Rome, Venice, Key West, Montreal, and Providence—landscapes soaked with feeling which lead, in the end, to the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara where their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.
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Edmund White's The Married Man receives high praise for its brilliant and poetic prose, with some considering it his finest work. Critics highlight the novel's beautifully evocative writing as both life-affirming and superb. The prose adapts seamlessly to the demands of comedy and tragedy, creating a poignant and complex love story that is challenging and profoundly personal.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780099285144
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 March 2001
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 223g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical sequence A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony, as well as Caracole, Forgetting Elena, Noctunes for the King of Naples, and Skinned Alive, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about America - States of Desire - and of Sketches from Memory, with Hubert Sorin. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
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