An edition of A Boy's Own Story
(1982)
A Boy's Own Story (Picador Thirty)
by Edmund White
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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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Fiction, Gay youth, Teenage boys, Gay men, Gay biography, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Literature of special Gay interest, Modern fiction, LGBTQ novels, Fiction, gay, Jeunes homosexuels, Romans, nouvelles, Garçons adolescentsPlaces
New York, Christopher Street, Stonewall InnTimes
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