An edition of A Boy's Own Story (1982)

A boy's own story

2002 Modern Library ed., [Twentieth anniversary ed.].

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An edition of A Boy's Own Story (1982)

A boy's own story

2002 Modern Library ed., [Twentieth anniversary ed.].

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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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Modern Library
Language
English
Pages
227

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Subjects
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 adolescents
Places
New York, Christopher Street, Stonewall Inn
Times
1954-1969

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Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
2016, Pan Macmillan
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A boy's own story
2002, Modern Library
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La historia particular de un muchacho
1995, Destino
in Spanish - 1. ed.
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A boy's own story
1983, New American Library, Plume
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A boy's own story
1983, Pan Books
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A boy's own story
1982, Dutton
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New York

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Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3573.H463 B6 2002, PS3573.H463B6 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiii, 227 p. ;
Number of pages
227

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3558992M
ISBN 10
0679642544
LCCN
2002020504
Library Thing
46592
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157510

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