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The Farewell Symphony

Advantages: Important as literature
Disadvantages: Novel format not convincing

The problem with "novels" that read like biographies, is having the author's real name loom large in the text, while those of other characters have been disguised to "protect their privacy." It's like having a garden hose pipe with a bend in the middle, ...

Willythewriter 07.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Farewell Symphony - Edmund White

A boys own story.

Advantages: increadibly readable, fascinating with a good story line and characters.
Disadvantages: not as strong as some of Whites other work.

A truly revealing and heartwarming story. This book is autobiographical although this is thinly disguised by White. You follow 'White' as a youngster growing up in America, his sexual adventures, the men and women he meets during his younger years and his ...

emos 31.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of A Boy's Own Story - Edmund White

  Slim

Advantages: Beautifully written, wise choices.
Disadvantages: Sometimes hard to read, the AIDS story has moved on a little.

The Darker Proof is a collection of short stories about AIDS by two prominent gay writers: Adam Mars-Jones who is English and Edmund White who is American. They are stories, not biographies, autobiographies, or eye witness accounts so they aren't abou ...

jillmurphy 17.11.2002 · Read full review
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Review of The Darker Proof - Adam Mars-Jones, Edmund White