A Brilliant Neglected Novel About the Search for a Lost Older Lover
Briefly

Edmund White's 'Nocturnes for the King of Naples' portrays cruising as a universal gay male activity but also specific to 1970s New York, with disorienting yet captivating prose.
The novel's opening scene in Chelsea piers is vivid and disorienting, with beautiful prose transforming surroundings and blurring cause and consequence.
Read at The New Yorker
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