{"product_id":"my-lives-by-edmund-white","title":"My Lives by Edmund White","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo one has been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, starting with A Boy's Own Story, here in his memoir White takes the fiction out of his story and delivers the facts in all their shocking and absorbing verity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom an adolescence in the 1950s, an era which tried to cure homosexuality, but found him 'unsalvageable', emerged into a 1960s society which re-designated his orientation as 'acceptable (nearly)'. He describes a life touched by psychotherapy in every decade, starting with his flamboyant and demanding therapist mother, who considered him her own personal test case - not to mention her escort to cocktail lounges after her divorce. His father thought that even wearing a wristwatch was effeminate, though custodial visits to dad in Cincinnati inadvertently initiated White into the culture of 'hustlers and johns' that changed his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhite introduces us to his lovers and predilections - past and present and gives his striking and eloquent opinions on art, life and other artists. My Lives is a spectacular treat- by turns moving and hilarious, outrageous and enlightening.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43650416312394,"sku":"6720aq","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6720aq.jpg?v=1780367504","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/my-lives-by-edmund-white","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}