The Married Man

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 310. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; maroon endpapers. Jacket design by Chip Kidd featuring cover detail of Stephen Conroy's oil on canvas The Architect's Dog (1997).

Signed by White to title page.

Author's seventh novel. A thinly-disguised autobiographical novel, a love affair between a middle-aged American in Paris and a much younger married Frenchman, at the onset of the AIDS epidemic. "One of the most powerful, candid, devastating and moving novels I've read in recent years." –Joyce Carol Oates