The Loves of My Life

'Textured and variegated ... switching between coquetry and high seriousness ... Truly seductive' RALF WEBB, GUARDIAN 'The gayest book ever written' HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat 'White is still breaking taboos in the most joyous and virtuoso style' SEN HEWITT, author of Open, Heaven With his trademark wit, candour and relentlessly perceptive eye, Edmund White, the beloved 85-year-old paterfamilias of queer literature (New York Times) delves unflinchingly into the aspect of his life which has inspired so many of his masterpieces: sex. Documenting everything from covert fumblings in the repressed American Midwest of the 1950s to the Arcadian gay debauchery of New York in the 1970s; through the terror of HIV and the age of sex on the apps, White has seen and experienced it all. Unyieldingly honest, outrageously raucous and arrestingly touching, The Loves of My Life can but further cement Whites unquestionable role at the apex of the gay canon.