OUR YOUNG MAN – Novel, by Edmund White

Our Young Man, interrogates the crucible of vanity prevalent in modern gay life. “He thought he was like an expensive racehorse whom all the people around him kept inspecting and trotting not for his well-being but to protect their investment. Feel his withers … is he off his feed? The grandstand seems to spook him, he needs blinders … his nose is warm. If he went out without sunglasses, Pierre-Georges, his agent, came running after him to warn him against squint lines”. This novel follows the life of a Frenchman, Guy, as he goes from the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand, to the top of the modeling profession in New York City’s fashion world, and like Wilde’s Dorian Grey, he never seems to age. Reading Edmund White, you can know a former Vogue editor, and he writes about an attractive French model, who rises to the top of the fashion world and stays there for years. http://www.amazon.com/Our-Young-Man-Edmund-White/dp/1620409968