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A boy's own story

by Edmund White

Fiction, coming of ageFiction, lgbtq+, gayFictionGay youthTeenage boysGay menGay biographyLiterature of special Gay interest

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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Book data: Open Library