{"product_id":"our-young-man-9781632860088","title":"Our Young Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Whites prose is as fresh as a series of slaps to the face  filled with reckless energy . . . Our Young Man speeds you along with its winningly hectic prose.\" --The New York Times Book Review  Our Young Man follows the life of a gorgeous Frenchman  Guy  as he goes from the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand to the top of the modeling profession in New York Citys fashion world  becoming the darling of Fire Islands gay community. Like Wildes Dorian Grey  Guy never seems to age; at thirty-five he is still modeling  still enjoying lavish gifts from older men who believe hes twenty-three--though their attentions always come at a price. Ambivalently  Guy lets them believe  driven especially by the memory of growing up poor  until he finds he needs the lie to secure not only wealth  but love itself. Surveying the full spectrum of gay amorous life through the disco era and into the age of AIDS  Edmund White (who worked at Vogue for ten years) explores the power of physical beauty--to fascinate  to enslave  and to deceive--with sparkling wit and pathos.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67908918607925,"sku":"ByrdShop_1632860082","price":101.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781632860088.jpg?v=1793904745","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/our-young-man-9781632860088","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}