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| Author | Edmund White |
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| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Publication date | 1978 |
| Publication place | USA [1] |
| ISBN | 0-312-57653-6 |
Nocturnes for the King of Naples is a 1978 novel by Edmund White. The novel is written as a series of letters addressed to a nameless former lover of the anonymous narrator.
The cover of the first paperback edition was illustrated by Mel Odom. It was Odom's first illustration for a book.[2] The original drawing, titled 'Smoke', appeared at auction in June 2019 at Sotheby's for an estimate of $4,000 - $6,000.[3]
White includes an exert from W. B. Yeats's poem 'Meditations in Times of Civil War' before the first chapter.
- ^ "Signed First Edition". AbeBooks.
- ^ Gentes, Brian (2019-01-19). "A Mel Odom Retrospective, Carmen Maria Machado's Upcoming Memoir, and More LGBTQ News". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "BENT Auction". Sotheby's.