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A Boy's Own Story
Edmund White · Literary Fiction
38 Pulse Score
Based on recommendations from independent creators
coming of agehistorical fictionunreliable narrator
coming of agehistorical fiction
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
#360 All Time
About this book
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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