The Loves of My Life

A Sex Memoir - A TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex.

***A TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025***

'All the no-holds-barred candour you'd expect . A hoot, and surprisingly touching' THE TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'Trousers down from page one . NSFW' THE TIMES
'The gayest book ever written' HENRY HOKE, author of Open Throat
'Daddy's diary fully delivers' JEREMY ATHERTON LIN, author of Gay Bar
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With his trademark wit, candour and relentlessly perceptive eye, Edmund White, the beloved 85-year-old ‘paterfamilias of queer literature’ (New York Times) delves unflinchingly into the aspect of his life which has inspired so many of his masterpieces: sex.

Documenting everything from covert fumblings in the repressed American Midwest of the 1950’s to the Arcadian gay debauchery of New York in the 1970’s; through the terror of HIV and the age of sex on the apps, White has seen – and experienced – it all.

Unyieldingly honest, outrageously raucous and arrestingly touching, The Loves of My Life can but further cement White’s unquestionable role at the apex of the gay canon.
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'A pointillistic canvas of gay desire and male sexuality' RALF WEBB, GUARDIAN
'Juicy, ebullient and ecstatic' OBSERVER
'Wry, hilarious, moving and brilliantly unreserved' SEÁN HEWITT, author of Open, Heaven

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