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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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 192
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780679755739
  • Genres
  • fiction, gay, lgbt, queer, novels, american, classics
  • Release date
  • 1994