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A Boy's Own Story (Paperback)

By: Edmund White (Author)

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"This is not exclusively a homosexual boy's story. It is any boy's story, to the marvelous degree that it evokes the inchoate longing of late childhood and adolescence."

"Like so many American novels about coming to maturity, A BOY'S OWN STORY asserts that growing up is a descent into painful knowledge, indecency and repression."

"[R]epresents the strongest bid to date by a gay writer to do for his minority experiences what [James Baldwin, Herman Wouk and Mary McCarthy] did for theirs--offer it as a representative, all-American instance."

"[T]he hair-raisingly frank and detailed disclosures of the teenage protagonist's homosexual cruising....[A] luminous, Proustian meditation on time, love, and loss."

Publisher's note

Growing up during the 1950s, a young boy is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers while uncovering new relationships in the struggle to embrace his own sexuality. Reprint.

Annotation

This novel revolves around a gay adolescent boy coming of age in the 1950s and is based, in part, on Edmund White's own life.

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