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Nocturnes for the King of Naples is a 1978 novel by Edmund White. The novel is written as a series of letters addressed to a nameless former lover of the anonymous narrator. The cover of the first paperback edition was illustrated by Mel Odom. It was Odom's first illustration for a book.
1 de ene. de 1978 · Nocturnes for the King of Naples. Edmund White. 3.65. 339 ratings43 reviews. A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing, intimacy of a stranger's love letters.
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.
Nocturnes for the King of Naples. Edmund White. Macmillan, Jul 15, 1988 - Fiction - 148 pages. A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples...
24 de may. de 2021 · Internet Archive. Language. English. 148 pages ; 21 cm. A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing, intimacy of a stranger's love letters.
In Edmund White. The elegiac Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978) recalls an affair after the elder of the two lovers has died. As the scourge of HIV/AIDS descended upon homosexual men, killing many of White’s friends, in 1981 he and others, including playwright Larry Kramer, formed the Gay… Read More.
1 de ene. de 1978 · Nocturnes for the King of Naples. Hardcover – January 1, 1978. A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing, intimacy of a stranger's love letters.
