States of Desire: Travels in Gay America

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Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1980 - Social Science - 336 pages
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A travel book that captures the pre-condom, pre-plague days like no other. Shows us the many venues that truly were where it was at back then. Also profoundly moving as it brings back memories of an ... Read full review

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San Francisco
30
Portland and Seattle
70
Santa Fe Salt Lake City and Denver
93
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States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America
Edmund White
Limited preview - 2014
States of Desire: Travels in Gay America
Edmund White
Snippet view - 1991
States of Desire: Travels in Gay America
Edmund White
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About the author (1980)

Author Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on January 13, 1940. He majored in Chinese at the University of Michigan. Before spending a year in Rome, he worked for Time-Life Books from 1962 until 1970. Upon his return, he became an editor for The Saturday Review and Horizon. He lived in France from 1983 until 1990. His works have chronicled gay life with such books as A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony.

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TitleStates of Desire: Travels in Gay America
AuthorEdmund White
PublisherPenguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1980
ISBN0525222359, 9780525222354
Length336 pages
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Social Science / Gay Studies
  
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