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The Farewell Symphony by White, Edmund is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Farewell Symphony about?

Following A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man. His witty, conversational narrative transports us from the 1960s to the near present, from starkly erotic scenes in the back rooms of New York clubs to episodes of rarefied hilarity in the salons of Paris to moments of family truth in the American Midwest. Along the way, a breathtaking variety of personal connections--and near misses--slowly...

Who reads The Farewell Symphony?

Author

White, Edmund

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679755739

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.89 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14