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Available
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Publication
St. Martin's Griffin (1988), Paperback, 160 pages
Description
A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing, intimacy of a stranger's love letters. The intense emotional situation envelops the readers from the first page; like all images in a dream, White's characters are the most real people we know, thought they remain phantoms. Each chapter, each nocturne, is set in a different emotional key, but all are interconnected through such subtle modulations that the final effect is devastating.
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My favorite of all of White's books. Parts of it are truly sublime. I put it up there with _The Swimming Pool Library_ by Hollinghurst because it also manages to capture the essence of what it was like to be a part of the sex hunt back in that [now almost mythical] pre-condom era.
Language
Original publication date
1978
Physical description
160 p.; 8.2 inches
ISBN
0312022638 / 9780312022631
Local notes
OCLC = 493
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