{"product_id":"9781408870273-the-unpunished-vice","title":"The Unpunished Vice","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Life of Reading\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I find it impossible to imagine anyone better read than White … Wisdom and a certain kind of tenderness are to be found on every page' \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the great prose stylists of our time … There are few paragraphs that pass by without an illuminating, wise or funny comment' \u003c\/b\u003e- Tim Smith-Laing, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A rallying cry for the pleasures of reading . The best writers are energetic readers, constantly diving for buried treasure. Anyone who encounters this book is likely to emerge with something new and gleaming' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e______\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdmund White made his name as a writer, but he remembers his life through the books he read. For White, each momentous occasion came with books to match: Proust’s \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White’s novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhite's larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world's best-loved cultural figures. Blending memoir and literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eThe Unpunished Vice \u003c\/i\u003eis a sensitive, smart account of a life in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451437330806,"sku":"9781408870273","price":10.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29631493.jpg?v=1760462539","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781408870273-the-unpunished-vice","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}