Forgetting Elena
Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community where Forgetting Elena takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one's bathroom habits to the composition of "spontaneous" poetry is subject to rigid conventions.
- Author
- Edmund White
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780679755739
- Genres
- fiction, gay, lgbt, queer, novels, american, classics
- Release date
- 1994
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