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(1982)
A boy's own story
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, coming of age, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Fiction, Gay youth, Teenage boys, Gay men, Gay biography, 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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A boy's own story
2002, Modern Library
in English
- 2002 Modern Library ed., [Twentieth anniversary ed.].
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A boy's own story
2000, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage international ed.
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