{"product_id":"nocturnes-for-the-king-of-naples-mcnally-editions","title":"Nocturnes for the King of Naples (McNally Editions)","description":"“Artful vignettes from a life passed between Bohemian and cafe societies, in Italy and Spain, on a decaying American estate, on the New York piers . . . It is exquisite prose . . . A writer of great talent and high art.” —John Yohalem, The New York Times\nThe letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by “the paterfamilias of queer literature” (The New York Times)\n“Can’t sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you.” In a series of late-night letters, gorgeous, funny, filled with memory, sensuality, and regret, a seducer calls across the years to the great love of his youth: an older, revered expatriate known, in his adoptive city, as the King of Naples. As the narrator evokes their affair, in scenes of beauty and remorse, his memories range over the men who came after and before, especially the seductive father who still haunts his erotic imagination.\nFirst published in 1978, before the trilogy of frankly autobiographical novels that made him famous, Nocturnes for the King of Naples reveals Edmund White at his most poetic, playful, and evocative, a magician on the level of James Salter, James Merrill, or Vladimir Nabokov.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1946022667\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1946022667.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Greenwell, Garth|White, Edmund\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41518943502394,"sku":"DBV.1946022667.VG","price":15.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1946022667-0.jpg?v=1783921263","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/nocturnes-for-the-king-of-naples-mcnally-editions","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}