The letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by “the paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times)
“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.
First published in 1978, before the trilogy of frankly autobiographical novels that made him famous,
Detalles del producto
Editorial : McNally Editions (4 Junio 2024)
Idioma : Inglés
Tapa blanda : 168 páginas
ISBN-10 : 1946022667
ISBN-13 : 978-1946022660
Dimensiones : 5 x 0.8 x 8.5 pulgadas
Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº686,198 en Libros (Ver el Top 100 en Libros)
nº190 en Ficción Epistolar (Libros)
nº5,130 en Ficción de Psicológica
nº32,340 en Ficción Literaria (Libros)
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