A Boy's Own Story

Picador Classic

256 pages

English language

Published June 16, 2016 by Pan Macmillan.

ISBN:
978-1-5098-1386-5
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OCLC Number:
952160890

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Edmund White is a patriarch of gay American literature. A Boy's Own Story is the first of his trio of autobiographical novels (followed by The Beautiful Room Is Empty and The Farewell Symphony). It begins with experiments and realizations of adolescence and proceeds through his firsthand account of the Stonewall uprising.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, gay
  • Fiction, coming of age