{"product_id":"edmund-white-states-of-desire-travels-in-gay-america-1980-inscribed","title":"Edmund White — States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980), inscribed","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e E. P. Dutton, New York, 1980\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First edition, first printing (full number line)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Quarter cloth, unclipped dust jacket in Brodart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336 pp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 14 x 21.5 cm (5½ x 8½ in)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0-525-22235-1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Inscribed by White on the half-title.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine in a fine dust jacket; one tiny fox spot to top edge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the 1970s Edmund White travelled to some twenty American cities to report on how gay men lived in the decade after Stonewall: their bars and churches, their politics, couples and loners, the new neighbourhoods and the men who stayed in the closet. States of Desire, published by Dutton in 1980, is part travel writing, part sociology and part self-portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was published a year before the first medical reports of what would be called AIDS, and it is now read as a portrait of a vanished moment: confident, various, unaware of what was coming. It is also an early example of literary reportage applied to gay life, by the writer who would become its most visible chronicler.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edmund White","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894718234941,"sku":"DI-050","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/2857\/4013\/files\/unnamed_8ebc03cc-6774-4f52-bd19-813a00a3c3f0.jpg?v=1793689194","url":"https:\/\/docksideinterview.com\/products\/edmund-white-states-of-desire-travels-in-gay-america-1980-inscribed","provider":"Dockside Interview","version":"1.0","type":"link"}