{"product_id":"nocturnes-for-the-king-of-naples-paperback","title":"Nocturnes for the King of Naples - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdmund White\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGarth Greenwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by \"the paterfamilias of queer literature\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Can't sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you.\" In a series of late-night letters, gorgeous, funny, filled with memory, sensuality, and regret, a seducer calls across the years to the great love of his youth: an older, revered expatriate known, in his adoptive city, as the King of Naples. As the narrator evokes their affair, in scenes of beauty and remorse, his memories range over the men who came after and before, especially the seductive father who still haunts his erotic imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e First published in 1978, before the trilogy of frankly autobiographical novels that made him famous, \u003ci\u003eNocturnes for the King of Naples\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Edmund White at his most poetic, playful, and evocative, a magician on the level of James Salter, James Merrill, or Vladimir Nabokov.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmund White\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Cincinnati in 1940. His many novels include the autobiographical trilogy \u003ci\u003eA Boy's Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Room Is Empty\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Farewell Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e; he has published biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud, as well as memoirs, short stories, and criticism; in 1977 he co-authored \u003ci\u003eThe Joy of Gay Sex\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarth Greenwell\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Belongs to You\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCleanness\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSmall Rain\u003c\/i\u003e. A Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at NYU.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.43 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 04, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748144513312,"sku":"9781946022660","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/91ded681f281eea138bab21f37806356.webp?v=1779905265","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/nocturnes-for-the-king-of-naples-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}