PositiveThe Guardian\"...approaches the task with refreshing candour. The result is something like an erotic almanac, charting the shifting sexual mores and conventions of gay life through seven decades ... But The Loves of My Life is far more textured and variegated than its enticing subtitle (\'A Sex Memoir\') has us believe. It is also a writer’s memoir and a rumination on craft – something that complements rather than contradicts the amatory theme ... An impressionistic and relatively short memoir, The Loves of My Life is both a worthy addition and effective introduction to White’s wider bibliography. The book’s push against prudishness also contains a subtle call for understanding and compassion – reminders that what has been gained in terms of LGBTQ rights is fragile, and a conviction that a better, bolder future is possible. Anyone can make such an optimistic vision sound appealing; only Edmund White could make it truly seductive.\
Oliver Sacks
RaveThe Guardian (UK)Sacks is an endearing and entertaining prose stylist – inquisitive, often funny, never obtuse ... Draws an illuminating line from Sacks’s neurological career to his unlikely emergence as a bestselling author.
