| Description |
282 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Guy rises to the top of the modeling world and becomes the darling of Fire Island's gay community during the 1970s and 80s, but the lavish attention he receives comes at a high price. |
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Our Young Man follows the life of a gorgeous Frenchman, Guy, as he goes from the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand to the top of the modeling profession in New York City's fashion world, becoming the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Like Wilde's Dorian Grey, Guy never seems to age; at thirty-five he is still modeling, still enjoying lavish gifts from older men who believe he's twenty-three---though their attentions always come at a price. Ambivalently, Guy lets them believe, driven especially by the memory of growing up poor, until he finds he needs the lie to secure not only wealth, but love itself. Surveying the full spectrum of gay amorous life through the disco era and into the age of AIDS, Edmund White (who worked at Vogue for ten years) explores the power of physical beauty---to fascinate, to enslave, and to deceive---with sparkling wit and pathos. |
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Gay men -- Fiction.
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Male models -- Fiction.
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Gay culture -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781620409961 (hardcover) |
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1620409968 (hardcover) |
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