The Literature Network - Imagining a writer's fevered final days; FICTION: Novelist Edmund White imagines the final weeks of Stephen Crane, who is dying of tuberculosis when he begins to dictate a disturbing novel to his mistress.(ENTERTAINMENT)

Imagining a writer's fevered final days; FICTION: Novelist Edmund White imagines the final weeks of Stephen Crane, who is dying of tuberculosis when he begins to dictate a disturbing novel to his mistress.(ENTERTAINMENT)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20071014
Author:Bailey, Katherine

Byline: Katherine Bailey

Special to the Star Tribune

Prolific writer Edmund White's contribution to American letters has been impressive. His nonfiction books about being gay and the AIDS epidemic, as well as "A Boy's Own Story" - his frank and entertaining account of growing up gay in 1950s Middle America - continue to receive acclaim. And when it comes to fiction, White proves himself a superb stylist, a true master of metaphor.

His latest book, "Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel," is meant for fiction connoisseurs, those readers willing to explore with the author ...

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Imagining a writer's fevered final days; FICTION: Novelist Edmund White imagines the final weeks of Stephen Crane, who is dying of tuberculosis when he begins to dictate a disturbing novel to his mistress.(ENTERTAINMENT)

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