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On the chance that a shepherd boy. . .

Edmund White

  • Andre Gide: A Life in the Present by Alan Sheridan
  • Andre Gide ou la vocation du bonheur. Tome 1, 1869-1911 by Claude Martin

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Edmund White is a novelist and the author of a biography of Proust.

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