The Farewell Symphony

The Farewell Symphony

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name = The Farewell Symphony
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image_caption = Cover of the first US edition
author = Edmund White
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Autobiographical Novel
publisher = Alfred A. Knopf
pub_date = 1997
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 413 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-679-43477-1
oclc = 37538014
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"The Farewell Symphony" is a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White. It is the third of a trilogy of novels, being preceded by "A Boy's Own Story" (1982) and "The Beautiful Room Is Empty" (1988). It depicts the later adulthood of its protagonist and documents his experience of homosexuality from the 1960s to the 1990s. The title alludes to the "Farewell" Symphony by Joseph Haydn.


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