Forgetting Elena

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ISBN-10: 067975573X
ISBN-13: 9780679755739
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 10/04/1994
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.21" W, 0.49" H

Forgetting Elena

byEdmund White

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Price: $15.95

Overview

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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Details

ISBN-10: 067975573X
ISBN-13: 9780679755739
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 10/04/1994
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.21" W, 0.49" H
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