The Farewell Symphony - Tapa blanda

"A work of singular accomplishment" (Sunday Times)

"A writer blessed with a more elusive gift, and it should probably be called wisdom" (Daily Telegraph)

"Disturbing... but with the kind of salvation that genuinely good writing can give" (Observer)

In his two most celebrated novels, A BOYS OWN STORY and THE BEAUTIFUL ROOM IS EMPTY, Edmond White charted the story of an American homo-sexual through the 1960s and 1970s. They received huge acclaim, and the third in the sequence - which covers the 1980s - is long-awaited. In THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY Edmund White has drawn together all his experience of gay life in the 80s and transformed them into a wonder-fully witty and moving novel. Set in Europe and the US, and including portraits (thinly disguised) of some of the key figures of the time, THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY opens up a world which feels painfully and fascinatingly real.