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The Humble Lover by Edmund White

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Also by Edmund White:

A Previous Life, May 2023
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The Humble Lover, May 2023
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A Saint from Texas, June 2021
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Jack Holmes and His Friend, January 2012
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City Boy, October 2009
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My Lives, April 2006
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THE HUMBLE LOVER
By: Edmund White

Bloomsbury Publishing
May 2023
On Sale: May 2, 2023
Featuring: Aldwych West; August Dupond
272 pages
ISBN: 1639730885
EAN: 9781639730889
Kindle: B0BNVV6XMB
Hardcover / e-Book
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From National Book Award-honored author Edmund White, a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich older man who falls in love with a young ballerino.

Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he decides he must have him. Soon they strike up a closeness that falls between the blurry lines of friendship, sponsorship, and love, and August moves in with Aldwych. But eventually August starts bringing home other men, and a formidable woman in Aldwych's circle named Ernestine also takes a deep interest in the young, enchanting star. Messy entanglements and fierce rivalries ensue, and the result is an unforgettable, outrageous tragicomedy that explores the many layers of love and sexual desire as only Edmund White can.