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092			_aWhite, E. _bW583
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100	1		_aWhite, Edmund, _d1940- _eauthor. _938534
245	1	4	_aThe unpunished vice : _ba life of reading / _cEdmund White.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bBloomsbury Publishing Inc., _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a225 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"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.
520			_aLiterary 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.
600	1	0	_aWhite, Edmund, _d1940- _xBooks and reading. _9365425
650		0	_aNovelists, American _y20th century _vBiography. _918626
650		0	_aLiterature _xAppreciation. _9182983
650		0	_aBooks and reading. _98520
650		0	_aBiographers _zUnited States _vBiography. _9146569
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
655		7	_aEssays. _2lcgft _95184
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