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The Loves of My Life
A Sex Memoir - A TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
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***A TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025***'All the no-holds-barred candour you'd expect . . . A hoot, and surprisingly touching' THE TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Trousers down from page one ... NSFW' THE TIMES'The gayest book ever written' HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat'Daddy's diary...
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***A TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025***
'All the no-holds-barred candour you'd expect . . . A hoot, and surprisingly touching' THE TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'Trousers down from page one ... NSFW' THE TIMES
'The gayest book ever written' HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat
'Daddy's diary fully delivers' JEREMY ATHERTON LIN, author of Gay Bar
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With his trademark wit, candour and relentlessly perceptive eye, Edmund White, the beloved 85-year-old ‘paterfamilias of queer literature’ (New York Times) delves unflinchingly into the aspect of his life which has inspired so many of his masterpieces: sex.
Documenting everything from covert fumblings in the repressed American Midwest of the 1950’s to the Arcadian gay debauchery of New York in the 1970’s; through the terror of HIV and the age of sex on the apps, White has seen – and experienced – it all.
Unyieldingly honest, outrageously raucous and arrestingly touching, The Loves of My Life can but further cement White’s unquestionable role at the apex of the gay canon.
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'A pointillistic canvas of gay desire and male sexuality' RALF WEBB, GUARDIAN
'Juicy, ebullient and ecstatic' OBSERVER
'Wry, hilarious, moving and brilliantly unreserved' SEÁN HEWITT, author of Open, Heaven
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781526690418
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
Edmund White was the author of many novels, including A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, A Saint from Texas, and The Humble Lover. His nonfiction included City Boy, Inside a Pearl, The Unpunished Vice, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. He received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. He lived in New York.
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