Book description
> Jack s friend Will Wright comes from old stock, has aspirations to
be a writer and, like Jack, works on the Northern Review. Jack will
introduce Will to the beautiful, brittle young woman he will marry, but
is discreet about his own adventures in love - for this is sixties New
York, literary and intense, before gay liberation; a concoction of old
society, bohemians rich and poor, sleek European immigrants and
transplanted Midwesterners. Against this charged backdrop, the different
lives of Jack and Will intertwine, and as their loves come and go, they
will always be, at the very least, friends.> 'Edmund White has three
voices. First there is the storyteller, relaxed, conversational, an
anecdotalist, an inspired flaneur. Then there is the poet: on every page
there lies in wait a metaphor of startling precision, an image that
holds and reattracts the eye. And then there is the laic philosopher,
who observes human life from the highest altitudes, held aloft by vast
infusions of erudition and experience. In Jack Holmes and His Friend,
White's trio is in frictionless accord' Martin Amis 'Edmund White is one
of the best writers of my generation; he's certainly the contemporary
American writer I reread more than any other, and the one whose next
book I look forward to reading most' John Irving 'I can't remember the
last time I had this much fun with a novel. Jack Holmes and His Friend
is a brilliant, moving and hilarious book from America's wittiest and
most urbane writer ... Entirely unforgettable and true. A top-shelf
addition to the Edmund White canon' Gary Shteyngart > Jack s friend
Will Wright comes from old stock, has aspirations to be a writer and,
like Jack, works on the Northern Review. Jack will introduce Will to the
beautiful, brittle young woman he will marry, but is discreet about his
own adventures in love - for this is sixties New York, literary and
intense, before gay liberation; a concoction of old society, bohemians
rich and poor, sleek European immigrants and transplanted Midwesterners.
Against this charged backdrop, the different lives of Jack and Will
intertwine, and as their loves come and go, they will always be, at the
very least, friends.>
