Forgetting Elena
"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 "spontaneou…
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- Full title :Forgetting Elena / Edmund White.
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"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."--Inside flap.
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- Publication Date:1994.
- Edition:1st Vintage International ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage International
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1994.
The Physical Object
- Description:184 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:067975573X, 9780679755739, 0394483413, 9780394483412
- oclc:ocm31299488
- LC Classification:PS3573.H463
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
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