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Pursuing A Boy's Own Story (now a vintage of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Clear, this is actually the eagerly awaited final level of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Called for the work by Haydn where the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only an individual violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who may have outlived almost all of his friends. Having come to the six-month wedding anniversary of his lover's loss of life, he embarks on the trip of remembrance that will recount his battle to become a writer and his breakthrough of what it means to be always a gay man. His witty, conversational narrative transports us from the 1960s to the near present, from starkly erotic moments in the trunk rooms of NY clubs to episodes of rarefied hilarity in the salons of Paris to occasions of family truth in the American Midwest. Along the way, a amazing variety of personal associations - and near misses - slowly but surely builds an awareness of the transformative electricity of genuine a friendly relationship, of love and loss, culminating in an indelible experience with a dying man. So that the move of memory holds us across time, space and modern culture, one man's magnificently recognized story increases to encompass a whole era. Sublimely funny yet elegiac, filled with unsparingly trenchant communal observation yet infused with intelligence and a deeply noticed compassion, The Farewell Symphony is a triumph of representation and expressive beauty. Additionally it is a stunning and wholly original panorama of gay life over the past thirty years - the crowning accomplishment of one of our own finest writers.
