International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

Books nominated for the 2002 Award

Austin is an American furniture scholar living in Paris. He is pushing fifty, loveless, drifting. One day at the gym he meets Julien: French, an architect, much younger and married. Against every expectation, this chance acquaintance matures into profound romance.
As the two men dash between bohemian suppers and sophisticated salons, their only impediments are the easily surmountable and comic clashes of culture, age and temperament. Inevitably, however, Julien's past catches up with them. With increasing desperation, in a quest to save health and happiness, they move from the shuttered squares of Venice to sun-drenched Key West, to Montreal in the snow and Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.

Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, U.S. in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony, as well as Caracole, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples and Skinned Alive, a collection of short stories. Hei is also the author of a biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America, States of Desire, and Our Paris. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.

The Married Man	Nominated ISBN: 0375400052	Find out more about the author on the following websites: *Sunday Times* review of Miss Garnet's Angel Read an excerpt from The Married Man
by
Edmund White

Nominated by:
Oliver Wolcott Library, Litchfield, U.S.A

Books nominated for the 2002 Award
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