{"product_id":"forgetting-elena-isbn-9780679755739","title":"Forgetting Elena","description":"\u003cb\u003eA captivating novel that explores the complexities of social conventions and the desperate yearning for acceptance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An astonishing first novel...uncannily beautiful.\" —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the privileged island community where \u003cb\u003eForgetting Elena\u003c\/b\u003e takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious young narrator who desperately wants to be accepted in this world where everything from one's bathroom habits to the composition of \"spontaneous\" poetry is subject to rigid conventions.\u003cb\u003eEdmund White \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy \u003ci\u003eA Boy\u003ci\u003e’s\u003c\/i\u003e Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Room Is Empty\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Farewell Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as\u003ci\u003e Caracole\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForgetting Elena\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Nocturnes for the King of Naples\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSkinned Alive\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America—\u003ci\u003eStates of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e—and \u003ci\u003eOur Paris\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301078159589,"sku":"NP9780679755739","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679755739.jpg?v=1767727577","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/forgetting-elena-isbn-9780679755739","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}