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Title: A little pretention goes a long ways
Review: This is my first book by Edmund White and probably my last. His stories are marginally entertaining & I suppose the they succeed on some level, but they so strewn with French phrases that can only be known by a French speaker or a Francophile that one begins to wonder who Edmund is trying to impress? The same goes for his conquests, always trying to impress with his prowess and his internationalism. In short, if you can stomach pretention at a party you may be able to stomach this. I can't, there are too many good things to read.
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