About the Book: A Previous Life
Elegant, erudite, raunchy and fun Andrew Sean Greer
the best book in Edmund Whites long and extraordinary career Benjamin moser
Fresh and inventive and wise Rebecca Makkai
_____________________________________ A daring, category-confounding and
ruthlessly funny novel from Edmund White, exploring polyamory and bisexuality,
ageing and love.
Sicilian aristocrat and musician Ruggero, and his younger American wife,
Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions.
Until now they had a ban on speaking about the past, since transparency had
wrecked their previous marriages. As the two take turns reading the memoirs
theyve written about their lives, Constance reveals her multiple marriages