The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White

The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund WhiteAn insightful account of the key role reading has played in the life of literary icon Edmund WhiteEdmund White made his name as a writer, but he remembers his life through the books he read. For White, each momentous occasion came with books 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

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Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart

part spiritual guide

It is one of the most important novels to come out of the country

a multimillion-copy bestseller

than I had ever suspected

sparked international outrage and action

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The Yogasutra is one of the most important works of Indian culture