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  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409042532
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook

Skinned Alive



A powerful collection of short stories from one of America's best writers

Ranging in their settings from Paris and London to New York and the mid-west of America, a powerful collection of short stories from from one of America's best writers. Edmund White is best known for his fiction A BOY'S OWN STORY has become a claasic of its kind. Chatto has published his biography of Genet and his collected non-fiction; this book gathers together all of Edmund White's short stories, Looking at different aspects of gay experience - from first unrequited love to the experience of AIDS all told with White's inimitable humour and edge.

  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409042532
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook

About the author

Edmund White

Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and Our Young Man. His non-fiction includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. He was named the winner of the 2018 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and is the recipient of the 2019 National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. His most recent novels are A Saint from Texas (2020) and A Previous Life (2021).

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Praise for Skinned Alive

each of the stories is self-defining ....to etch their portrait or (to use the metaphor of the title story) skin the subject, exposing nerves and tendons to the bloodthirsty curiosity of the reader.

Observer