Forgetting Elena - Edmund White - Mass Market Paperback

Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community whereForgetting Elenatakes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one's bathroom habits to the composition of "spontaneous" poetry is subject to rigid conventions. From the Trade Paperback edition.White, Edmund is the author of 'Forgetting Elena - Edmund White - Mass Market Paperback' with ISBN 9780345358622 and ISBN 0345358627.