ROSEMARY CLOONEY & DUKE ELLINGTON ~

EDMUND WHITE ~

Nearing his eighties this might be Edmund White's

finest book. It's a little over 200 pages

and you would swear you've gone through

600 pages, thoroughly enjoying yourself.

As he closes one of the chapters,

"There is great imaginative energy in Malaparte, as there

is in Gabriel Garcia Marquez; everything is compact,

eloquent, and endlessly inventive."

White just described his own book.

Relish the essays on Jean Giono and Malaparte

since few readers today take the time

with these lively authors.

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Bloomsbury

2018