Boyd Tonkin

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In a new memoir of the literary life, Edmund White describes returning yearly to Proust and Henry Green’s Nothing — though Lolita remains his favourite novel

  • The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

    Edmund White

    Bloomsbury, pp. 240

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