The Farewell Symphony

Name: The Farewell Symphony
Author: Edmund White

by Edmund White

Final volume of trilogy chronicling protagonist's life through 1970s New York gay scene

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Edmund White

White is the most important American literary chronicler of gay life from the Stonewall era to the AIDS crisis, combining memoir, fiction, and biography with a Proustian attention to desire and social milieu. A Boy's Own Story established him as a canonical voice.

More by Edmund White

A Boy's Own StorySemi-autobiographical novel about a gay boy's coming of age and sexual awakening
The Beautiful Room Is EmptySecond novel following protagonist through college years and intensifying self-awareness
City BoyNovel following a homosexual man's journey from Midwest to New York City seeking life
My LivesComprehensive memoir spanning White's entire life from childhood through old age