An edition of A Boy's Own Story
(1982)
Boys Own Story (Picador Books)
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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| July 26, 2023 | Edited by Erraticonteuse | Edited without comment. |
| July 30, 2019 | Edited by MARC Bot | associate edition with work OL15134805W |
| August 17, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
| April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs. |
| April 30, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record. |