Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White (1980, Paperback) 
Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White (1980, Paperback)
Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Viking Pr
Publication Date: 1980-02-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140053301
ISBN-13: 9780140053302
Product ID: EPID1960268
Description: The unnamed narrator offers elegies to a lover who was famous, and who introduced him to a sort of sexual/friendly relationship that the narrator now feels, regretfully, he did not fully appreciate at the time--a relationship he has been...
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Synopsis
The unnamed narrator offers elegies to a lover who was famous, and who introduced him to a sort of sexual/friendly relationship that the narrator now feels, regretfully, he did not fully appreciate at the time--a relationship he has been trying, unsuccessfully, to recreate.

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Publication Date:1980-02-01

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Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
An intensely haunting and poetic evocation of lost love, comprised of chapters that are nocturnes set in different emotional keys but interconnected through subtle modulations, draws upon the worlds of religious mysticism, cafe society, homosexual love, and surrealism.

Industry Reviews
"Because of the speaker's final realization of the impossibility of ever finding a ground for satisfaction, a home, this book is more than a chronicle of sorrow and regret. It becomes, rather, a true elegy in which sorrow and self-knowledge combine and transform into a higher form of insight. This higher insight is the artistic intuition of the mortality of human things and ways."
Chicago Tribune - David Shields (12/10/1978)

"The music of White's prose is seductive. It is of course possible that a tone-deaf, a melody indifferent reader might turn his back on White's homo-erotic narrative. But the lover of good fictional writing who is open to this most subtle exploration of the many ways of love, desertion, loss, and regret, will read: 'You are the song I wanted to sing, the god I wanted to celebrate or conjure' and inevitably follow the piper-White wherever he leads."
Washington Post Book World - Doris Grumbach (12/10/1978)

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