The Married Man (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Edmund White
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The early 1990’s
- Setting: Paris, central France, Nice, Italy, Rhode Island, Vermont, Florida, Mexico, and North Africa
- Principal Characters: Austin Smith, Julien, Christine, Peter
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, France or French people, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Paris, Florida, Mexico or Mexicans, 1990’s, AIDS, Italy or Italians, Vermont, Rhode Island
- Locales: Africa, France, Mexico, Paris, France, Florida, Italy, Rhode Island, Vermont, Nice, France
Edmund White’s new novel, like much of his former fiction, is thinly disguised autobiography. In The Married Man, White, who is sixty, goes back to the year 1990 when his hero was turning fifty. Austin Smith, like White himself, is a likeable, intelligent, cultivated, amusing, friendly, generous homosexual who writes for a living. Like White, Austin does not take his writing seriously. He is not ambitious or competitive. Just as Austin is restricted to a limited audience because of his specialized subject matter, White is similarly restricted because he writes mainly about...
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