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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. White—a prolific essayist, novelist, biographer (of Proust and Genet), travel writer, critic and all-around man of letters—has mined the events and circumstances of his own life frequently and vividly, and has been the subject of two biographies. Wisely, he has not attempted a straightforward autobiography, but instead a collection of essays or meditations, beginning, tellingly, with "My Shrinks," an introduction to his early struggles with homosexuality and later with other problems; the psychoanalytic process led him to "the conviction that everyone is worth years and years of intense scrutiny—not a bad credo for a novelist." Essays on White's divorced parents—his conservative Republican father and hard-working, indulgent mother—are followed by "My Hustlers," which features the kind of candid writing about sex and relationships that has made White a gay icon. His close women friends aren't neglected, nor is the expatriate life he has often described before, including his friendship with French philosopher Michel Foucault. White delivers more on sex than any other subject (which will please many of his fans), but there's plenty more in these gracefully written pieces to engage the intellect, the emotions and even that part of us that responds to name-dropping. For a Princeton professor, White gets around. Photos. (Apr. 1)
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From Booklist
Readers will quickly come to realize the reason why this esteemed American writer pluralizes the word life in the title of his memoirs. Now in his midsixties, White (author of a previous memoir, A Boy's Own Story, 1982, and Fanny: A Fiction, 2003, among others) has no interest in a cradle-to-present-day remembrance of his life, no fondness--this time--for any sort of traditional, seamless autobiographical flow. He chooses, instead, to recall significant events, individuals, places, and personal habits in chapter format. So, anecdotes and thoughts about his parents are clustered in chapters called, not surprisingly, "My Mother" and "My Father." Where and with whom he spent much of his adult life is explored in "My Hustlers," "My Europe," and "My Friends." The thread of his early realized homosexuality connects the chapters, and, fortunately, he indicates a middle-age acceptance of inner resources as compensation for the physical bloom having fallen off the rose. Sexually explicit, rich in language, an open and unafraid self-estimation. Brad Hooper
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Starred Review. White—a prolific essayist, novelist, biographer (of Proust and Genet), travel writer, critic and all-around man of letters—has mined the events and circumstances of his own life frequently and vividly, and has been the subject of two biographies. Wisely, he has not attempted a straightforward autobiography, but instead a collection of essays or meditations, beginning, tellingly, with "My Shrinks," an introduction to his early struggles with homosexuality and later with other problems; the psychoanalytic process led him to "the conviction that everyone is worth years and years of intense scrutiny—not a bad credo for a novelist." Essays on White's divorced parents—his conservative Republican father and hard-working, indulgent mother—are followed by "My Hustlers," which features the kind of candid writing about sex and relationships that has made White a gay icon. His close women friends aren't neglected, nor is the expatriate life he has often described before, including his friendship with French philosopher Michel Foucault. White delivers more on sex than any other subject (which will please many of his fans), but there's plenty more in these gracefully written pieces to engage the intellect, the emotions and even that part of us that responds to name-dropping. For a Princeton professor, White gets around. Photos. (Apr. 1)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Readers will quickly come to realize the reason why this esteemed American writer pluralizes the word life in the title of his memoirs. Now in his midsixties, White (author of a previous memoir, A Boy's Own Story, 1982, and Fanny: A Fiction, 2003, among others) has no interest in a cradle-to-present-day remembrance of his life, no fondness--this time--for any sort of traditional, seamless autobiographical flow. He chooses, instead, to recall significant events, individuals, places, and personal habits in chapter format. So, anecdotes and thoughts about his parents are clustered in chapters called, not surprisingly, "My Mother" and "My Father." Where and with whom he spent much of his adult life is explored in "My Hustlers," "My Europe," and "My Friends." The thread of his early realized homosexuality connects the chapters, and, fortunately, he indicates a middle-age acceptance of inner resources as compensation for the physical bloom having fallen off the rose. Sexually explicit, rich in language, an open and unafraid self-estimation. Brad Hooper
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
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