It concerns the life of Ruggero, a septuagenarian bisexual Sicilian aristocrat with an enormous penis.
Witty, self-lacerating and wildly entertaining, the novel pulses with a rambunctious energy. A Previous Life: Another Posthumous Novel is White’s 29th book in a career that, alongside fiction, has included memoirs and biographies of his heroes Jean Genet and Marcel Proust. The subtitle of his new novel wryly pushes back at this impertinent ageism. They seemed to be disgusted that I’m still alive.” “I saw a lot of people saying: ‘You mean to say he’s still alive?’ Americans are so rude and awful.
“On Facebook yesterday, it announced my birthday,” he tells me over video from his apartment in Chelsea, Manhattan. Edmund White, the author who has been hailed as the godfather of modern gay American literature, has just turned 82.
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