The Farewell Symphony

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The Farewell Symphony

Cover of the first US edition
Author Edmund White
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Autobiographical Novel
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date 1997
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 413 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-679-43477-1
OCLC 37538014

The Farewell Symphony is a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White.

It is the third of a trilogy of novels, being preceded by A Boy's Own Story (1982) and The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988). It depicts the later adulthood of its protagonist and documents his experience of homosexuality from the 1960s to the 1990s.

The title alludes to the "Farewell" Symphony by Joseph Haydn.