The Married Man | The Married Man

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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...

The Married Man | The Married Man

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