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The narrator described The Farewell Symphony as the third book in White's semiautobiographical trilogy, chronicling a writer looking back on the postStonewall preAIDS era.
the third book in his trilogy, The Farewell Symphony. The book is narrated by a writer who has outlived most of his gay friends. He's looking back on the 1970s, the postStonewall preAIDS era.
— Episode: Remembering Pioneer Of Gay Lit, Edmund W...
Episode: Remembering Pioneer Of Gay Lit, Edmund White
The narrator described The Farewell Symphony as the third book in White's semiautobiographical trilogy, chronicling a writer looking back on the postStonewall preAIDS era.
the third book in his trilogy, The Farewell Symphony. The book is narrated by a writer who has outlived most of his gay friends. He's looking back on the 1970s, the postStonewall preAIDS era.
There was a passage I'd like you to read from the Farewell Symphony that is about the period and about that sense of sexual mania of the period...