"I don't know anyone, except Edmund White, who's had 'thousands of sex partners.' I definitely don't know anyone who writes so ebulliently about former lovers. In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White's love of sex makes us proud to human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving (and very funny!) novel." -- John Irving "Nearly 50 years after the great Edmund White co-authored The Joy of Gay Sex, we get even more joy, more candor, and more of White's peerless literary style in a witty and highly personal memoir devoted to a lifelong love of sex, and of sex and love. Fabulous-and inspiring!" -- Bill Hayes, author of IINSOMNIAC CITY: NEW YORK, OLIVER, AND ME "Edmund White's The Loves of My Life is a raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom. White asks all the right questions, forcing me to expand much of what I imagined about desire and longing. There's so much of the under-examined (sex) life laid bare here-enough to make grown folks blush.

But it was the skilled explorations of the twin demons of hatred and self-hatred that broke me down and broke me open. The Loves of My Life is an invaluable historical understanding of how gay men navigate perpetually hostile terrain and sometimes manage to avoid its death traps." -- Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of THE PROPHETS, a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction "Balletic in its horniness." -- Jami Attenberg, author of THE MIDDLESTEINS "Exhaustively wonderful. An unflinching, romantic, and generous climax by a bright star in our literary constellation. The gayest book ever written." -- Henry Hoke, author of OPEN THROAT "The books by 80-year-old American novelist, memoirist and essayist Edmund White-honest, fierce and joyful explorations of love, sex and family-have been breaking boundaries and engaging readers for nearly 50 years.

" -- AARP "[Edmund White is] one of the three or four most virtuosic living writers of sentences in the English language." -- Dave Eggers, author of THE EVERY.