{"product_id":"nocturnes-for-the-king-of-naples","title":"Nocturnes for the King of Naples","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNocturnes for the King of Naples\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eEdmund White\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781946022660\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMcNally Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by \"the paterfamilias of queer literature\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Can't sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you.\" In a series of late-night letters, gorgeous, funny, filled with memory, sensuality, and regret, a seducer calls across the years to the great love of his youth: an older, revered expatriate known, in his adoptive city, as the King of Naples. As the narrator evokes their affair, in scenes of beauty and remorse, his memories range over the men who came after and before, especially the seductive father who still haunts his erotic imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e First published in 1978, before the trilogy of frankly autobiographical novels that made him famous, \u003ci\u003eNocturnes for the King of Naples\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Edmund White at his most poetic, playful, and evocative, a magician on the level of James Salter, James Merrill, or Vladimir Nabokov.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Nocturnes for the King of Naples | Edmund White | Paperback | 9781946022660 | New | Fiction 1610519","offer_id":48186692993176,"sku":"1610519","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71Sou311hXL.jpg?v=1772385025","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/nocturnes-for-the-king-of-naples","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}