| Title | : | Forgetting Elena: A Novel (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Edmund White |
| Release | : | 2025-01-16 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Nonfiction |
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| 1 | Forgetting Elena: A Novel (Unabridged) | Edmund White |
| Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community where Forgetting Elena takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one's bathroom habits to the composition of "spontaneous" poetry is subject to rigid conventions. |
