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Sacred Monsters

By: Edmund White
Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
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Edmund White is one of our most celebrated novelists. He is also a brilliant journalist and cultural commentator on the arts, contributing to publications as varied The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Washington Post, House and Garden, and The New York Review of Books. In Sacred Monsters, White collects more than 20 of his most recent writings on artists and authors, including John Cheever, Patti Smith, Henry James, Mary Cassatt, Paul Bowles, Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Vladimir Nabokov, Auguste Rodin, Edith Wharton, Christopher Isherwood, Martin Amis, Allen Ginsberg, Marguerite Duras, John Rechy, Ford Maddox Ford, David Hockney, Reynolds Price, E. M. Forster, James Abbott McNeil Whistler, and Marcel Proust, among others.

©2011 Edmund White (P)2014 Audible Inc.
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smart criticism mediocre narration

great essays especially on Mapplethorpe, Henry James, and Nabokov...But the narration is stilted and lacking (and some flubs on pronunciation)

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No chapter headings make it an editorial mess

I despise this about audible editions. There are no chapter headings for any chapters. This is infuriating and an editorial stupidity! Why do publishers do this?

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