Mid-Century Male
Christopher Glazek: Edmund White, 19 July 2012
Jack Holmes and His Friend
by Edmund White.
Bloomsbury, 390 pp., £18.99, January 2012,978 1 4088 0579 4 Show More
by Edmund White.
Bloomsbury, 390 pp., £18.99, January 2012,
“... between Proust, Mann, Gide, Genet, Forster, Woolf, Stein, Langston Hughes, Djuna Barnes and Henry James, it may be more accurate to say that the modernist novel is a queer invention with a smattering of heterosexual imitators, many of them notably preoccupied with queer concerns. After the war, the mantle was passed from Vidal, Isherwood, ... ”