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  Forgetting Elena: A Novel

  The Joy of Gay Sex (coauthored)

  Nocturnes for the King of Naples: A Novel

  States of Desire: Travels in Gay America

  A Boy’s Own Story: A Novel

  The Beautiful Room Is Empty: A Novel

  Caracole: A Novel

  The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis

  Genet: A Biography

  The Burning Library: Essays

  Our Paris: Sketches from Memory

  Skinned Alive: Stories

  The Farewell Symphony: A Novel

  Marcel Proust: A Life

  The Married Man: A Novel

  The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris

  Fanny: A Fiction

  Arts and Letters: Essays

  My Lives: A Memoir

  Chaos: A Novella and Stories

  Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel

  Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel

  City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ‘70s

  Sacred Monsters: New Essays on Literature and Art

  Jack Holmes and His Friend: A Novel

  First published in Great Britain 2014

  Copyright © 2014 by Edmund White

  The moral right of the author has been asserted

  No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner

  whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the

  case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews

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  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

  ISBN 978 1 4088 2045 2 (hardback edition)

  ISBN 978 1 4088 3785 6 (trade paperback edition)

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  Typeset by Hewer Text UK Ltd, Edinburgh

  Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY