Bloomsbury Publishing The Humble Lover
Bloomsbury Publishing The Humble Lover

The Humble Lover

By Edmund White

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Publication Date: May 2, 2023

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From National Book Award honored–author Edmund White, a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich older man who falls in love with a young ballerino.

DupondAldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he decides he must have him. Soon they strike up a closeness that falls between the blurry lines of friendship, sponsorship, and love, and August moves in with Aldwych. But eventually August starts bringing home other men, and a formidable woman in Aldwych's circle named Ernestine also takes a deep interest in the young, enchanting star. Messy entanglements and fierce rivalries ensue, and the result is an unforgettable, outrageous tragicomedy that explores the many layers of love and sexual desire as only Edmund White can.

About the Author

Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and A Previous Life. His nonfiction includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, The Unpunished Vice, The Flâneur, and other memoirs, literary biographies, and essays. He was named the 2018 winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and received the 2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. He lives in New York.

Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

Length: 272 pages

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publication Date: May 2, 2023

ISBN: 9781639730889

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