The Resource The unpunished vice : a life of reading, Edmund White
The unpunished vice : a life of reading, Edmund White
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The item The unpunished vice : a life of reading, Edmund White represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The unpunished vice : a life of reading, Edmund White represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels. But it wasn't until heart surgery in 2014, when he temporarily lost his desire to read, that White realized the key role that reading played in his life: forming his tastes, shaping his memories, and amusing him through the best and worst life had to offer. Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a compendium of all the ways reading has shaped White's life and work. His larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world's best-loved cultural figures. With characteristic wit and candor, he recalls reading Henry James to Peggy Guggenheim in her private gondola in Venice and phone calls at eight o'clock in the morning to Vladimir Nabokov--who once said that White was his favorite American writer
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 225 pages
- Note
- "Parts of this book have appeared in different form in the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Paris Review, and as a speech on the steps of the Capitoline in Rome."--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9781635571172
- Label
- The unpunished vice : a life of reading
- Title
- The unpunished vice
- Title remainder
- a life of reading
- Statement of responsibility
- Edmund White
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels. But it wasn't until heart surgery in 2014, when he temporarily lost his desire to read, that White realized the key role that reading played in his life: forming his tastes, shaping his memories, and amusing him through the best and worst life had to offer. Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a compendium of all the ways reading has shaped White's life and work. His larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world's best-loved cultural figures. With characteristic wit and candor, he recalls reading Henry James to Peggy Guggenheim in her private gondola in Venice and phone calls at eight o'clock in the morning to Vladimir Nabokov--who once said that White was his favorite American writer
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1940-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- White, Edmund
- Dewey number
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- 813/.54
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3573.H463
- LC item number
- Z46 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- White, Edmund
- Novelists, American
- Literature
- Books and reading
- Biographers
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
- Label
- The unpunished vice : a life of reading, Edmund White
- Note
- "Parts of this book have appeared in different form in the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Paris Review, and as a speech on the steps of the Capitoline in Rome."--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 1001841941
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9781635571172
- Lccn
- 2017036149
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The unpunished vice : a life of reading, Edmund White
- Note
- "Parts of this book have appeared in different form in the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Paris Review, and as a speech on the steps of the Capitoline in Rome."--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 1001841941
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9781635571172
- Lccn
- 2017036149
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
Library Locations
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