{"product_id":"9781946022660-nocturnes-for-the-king-of-naples","title":"White Edmund - Nocturnes For The King Of Naples - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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 Nocturnes for the King of Naples reveals Edmund White at his most poetic playful and evocative a magician on the level of James Salter James Merrill or Vladimir Nabokov.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Nocturnes For The King Of Naples\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): White Edmund\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Mcnally Jackson Books\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781946022660\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 168 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 6\/4\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"White Edmund","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49626805928241,"sku":"IN-G-9781946022660","price":15.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781946022660.jpg?v=1724953231","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781946022660-nocturnes-for-the-king-of-naples","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}