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Booksbiography & autobiographyA Boy's Own Story
Cover of A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
№ 1 · The Edmund Trilogy

A Boy's Own Story,

by Edmund White

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Rating3.8/ 5
Ratings13
Pages217
Reading Hours5h
Published1982
LanguageEnglish

§Synopsis

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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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§Genres
biography & autobiography1gay men1lgbtq1young adult1

§About the Author

Edmund White

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Edmund Valentine White III is a patriarch of modern gay American literature, having contributed novels, memoirs, short stories, and essays, non-fiction as well as fiction, dealing with a range of social topics, frequently involving same-sex love.

His best-known works include The Joy of Gay Sex (with Charles Silverstein) and his autobiographic-fiction trilogy A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony.

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The Edmund Trilogy

Cover of A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White

A Boy's Own Story

Edmund White, 1982
§Genres
biography & autobiography1gay men1lgbtq1young adult1

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ISBN-139780375707407
ISBN-100375707409

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