{"product_id":"the-unpunished-vice-9781408870273","title":"The Unpunished Vice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e''I find it impossible to imagine anyone better read than White  Wisdom and a certain kind of tenderness are to be found on every page'' \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e''One of the great prose stylists of our time  There are few paragraphs that pass by without an illuminating, wise or funny comment'' \u003c\/b\u003e- Tim Smith-Laing, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A rallying cry for the pleasures of reading ... The best writers are energetic readers, constantly diving for buried treasure. Anyone who encounters this book is likely to emerge with something new and gleaming'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e______\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e________\u003c\/b\u003eEdmund White made his name as a writer, but he remembers his life through the books he read. For White, each momentous occasion came with books to match: Proust's \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that ins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI find it impossible to imagine anyone better read than White … \u003cb\u003eWisdom and a certain kind of tenderness are to be found on every page\u003c\/b\u003e -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eWhite is above all else a writer's writer: \u003cb\u003eone of the great prose stylists of our time\u003c\/b\u003e ... An afternoon stroll with a Grade-A literary flâneur … \u003cb\u003eThere are few paragraphs that pass by without an illuminating, wise or funny comment\u003c\/b\u003e -- Tim Smith-Laing * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eAs a peerless chronicler and interpreter of gay American life before, during and after the age of Aids, as a connoisseur of French (and so much other) literature and as a Princeton professor of creative writing, White never lost touch with that spirit of antic mischief … \u003cb\u003eMuch more fun – and more surprising – than a leisurely ramble through favourite works by a 78-year-old giant of letters has any right to be\u003c\/b\u003e * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rallying cry for the pleasures of reading\u003c\/b\u003e ... The best writers are energetic readers, constantly diving for buried treasure. Anyone who encounters this book is likely to emerge with something new and gleaming * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Edmund White * - *\u003cbr\u003eA writer blessed with ... [an] elusive gift, and it should probably be called wisdom * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eHis writing finds itself echoing Proust ... Since the publication of \u003ci\u003eA Boy's Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e thirty years ago, [White's] own prose style has hardly aged a day * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eEdmund White is \u003cb\u003eone of the best writers of my generation\u003c\/b\u003e; he's certainly  the contemporary American writer I reread more than any other, and the  one whose next book I look forward to reading most -- John Irving\u003cbr\u003eWhite's prose is a series of slaps to the face, filled with reckless energy * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eWhite simply does it better than most -- Neil Bartlett * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eOne of America's pre-eminent men of letters ... White's great achievement lies in his never holding back * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eEdmund White tells such a good story that \u003cb\u003eI'm ready to to  listen to anything he wants to talk about\u003c\/b\u003e -- praise for 'The Flâneur' * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eHe never descends to savage satire. This open-heartedness, an essential White quality, \u003cb\u003emakes his writing sparkle with generosity\u003c\/b\u003e … \u003cb\u003eEvery detail is alive and gleaming \u003c\/b\u003e… It is also \u003cb\u003ea book that floats above things, so light is its touch, so playful and joyous its execution\u003c\/b\u003e -- praise for 'Our Young Man', Neel Mukherjee * Guardian *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408017301847,"sku":"9781408870273","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408870273.jpg?v=1730501283","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-unpunished-vice-9781408870273","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}