Skinned Alive (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Edmund White
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Loneliness, AIDS, Middle age
Edmund White, who is widely regarded as the late twentieth century’s leading writer about gay life, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Award for his book Genet: A Biography (1993). He has published five novels and several works of nonfiction, including States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980) and The Joy of Gay Sex: An Intimate Guide for Gay Men to the Pleasures of a Gay Lifestyle (1977). Skinned Alive is his first collection of stories.
One common theme echoes throughout this collection of stories about the...
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