Forgetting Elena

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book Forgetting Elena by Edmund White, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Edmund White ISBN: 9780307764508
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: September 8, 2010
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Edmund White
ISBN: 9780307764508
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: September 8, 2010
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community where Forgetting Elena takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one's bathroom habits to the composition of "spontaneous" poetry is subject to rigid conventions.

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Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community where Forgetting Elena takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one's bathroom habits to the composition of "spontaneous" poetry is subject to rigid conventions.

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