Inside a Pearl - Edmund White

Edmund White was forty-three years old when he moved to Paris in 1983. He spoke no French and knew just two people in the entire city but soon discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. White fell passionately in love with Paris its beauty in the half-light and eternal mists; its serenity compared with the New York he had known. Intoxicated and intellectually stimulated by its culture he became the definitive biographer of Jean Genet wrote lives of Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud. Frequent trips across the Channel to literary parties in London begot friendships with Julian Barnes Alan Hollinghurst Martin Amis and many others. When he left fifteen years later to return to the US he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and TV and as a journalist had made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves St Laurent to Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. He'd also developed a close friendship with an older woman Marie-Claude through whom he'd come to a deeper understanding of French life. Inside a Pearl vividly recalls those fertile years and offers a brilliant examination of a city and a culture eternally imbued with an aura of enchantment.

TITLE: Inside a Pearl

AUTHOR: Edmund White

SKU: 9781408837764

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

DATE PUBLISHED: 26/02/2015

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 272

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm

WEIGHT: 192 gr