Length5h 49m
About this audiobook
From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex."In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White's love of sex makes us proud to be human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving (and very funny!) novel." -John Irving"A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom."-Robert Jones, Jr.I'm at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them-for me it would be thousands of sex partners.The 85-year-old "paterfamilias of queer literature" (New York Times) recounts the sixty-plus years of sexual escapades that have inspired his many masterpieces. He explores the sex he had with other closeted boys of the 50s Midwest, with women as a young man trying to be straight, the sex he's paid for and been paid for, sex during the Stonewall and HIV...
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (1.9K)
Includes Goodreads
GenreRomance
Length5 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
16Becky
2Dedication
17Strange Places
3Also by Edmund White
18The Kabuki
4Title Page
19Poison Ivy
5Epigraph
20Stonewall
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6Author’s Note
21Sadomasochism
7Preface
22Sex with Straight Men
8First Lust
23Fuck Buddies
9Hustlers
24Rory
10Stan
25Sex and Literature
11Keith
26The Horrors of Adolescence
12Pedro
27Giovanni
13Mini-Stories
28Acknowledgments
14Jim
29A Note on the Author
15Harold
30Copyright
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