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Who recommended it

1. 

   Edmund White American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)

   Explicit recommendation

   One of five picks in the 2012 Five Books interview “The Best Fiction Books”.

   The Best Fiction Books↗ Interviewfivebooks.com Five Books · 2 Feb 2012 · checked 12 Nov 2026

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