A boy's own storyAt home, in school, and on the streets, a homosexual teenager moves through comic sexual experiments, isolation, fear, and exciting expectations toward an escape from childhood and a firm sense of self |
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User Review - amerynth - LibraryThing"A Boy's Own Story" is the first in Edmund White's autobiographical trilogy about growing up gay in 1950's America. He struggles with his homosexuality and with a deep longing to belong that seemingly ... Read full review
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User Review - anoceandrowning - LibraryThingI don't know what the deal was. I just couldn't get into it. I really liked The Beautiful Room is Empty. This one seemed more fragmented. I started getting into the second half, when he went off to ... Read full review
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| Title | A boy's own story |
| Author | Edmund White |
| Publisher | E.P. Dutton, Incorporated, 1982 |
| ISBN | 0525241280, 9780525241287 |
| Length | 217 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Gay Fiction / General |
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