Bloomsbury

9781639730889

STARRED REVIEW

The Humble Lover

Mischievous as it is thought-provoking, this novel is Edmund White at his very best.

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Review of ‘The Humble Lover’

Love may be universal, but no one writes about love quite like Edmund White. The veteran author returns with The Humble Lover, an outrageous, tender novel that complicates contemporary ideas of what traditional, “appropriate” desires and relationships look like. 

Aldwych West is an aging elite who…

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