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A Boy's Own Story Edmund White
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

First Lines: Edmund White - A Boy's Own Story. We're going for a midnight boat ride. Castles, cable Disclosure Note: Thanks to the German National Tourist Office for their support in helping us to bring you this story. It's a novel about a gay adolescent who recalls his first sexual experience, his close relationship with his mother, and his longing for his father's affection. When “A Boy's Own Story” was initially published in 182, it was hailed as an “instant classic” as it deals with coming-out and coming-of-age and in this way it documents how gay life was. For instance Robert Glück's reads Edmund White's, A Boy's Own Story as a transgressive piece of fiction that argues against reading the novel as an example of 'crossover' literature with mainstream audiences. His latest, Jack Holmes & His Friend, was published in January. €�These essays come like a plunge into a forest pool of revitalizing joy, honesty, and common sense. This week, I read A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White. Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story. Posted by William Kretschmer at 12:24 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. "We are hoping some of the big drivers from up in America will come down and have a play with us in our own backyard." He hoped his Boy's Own story would encourage other Kiwis to do what they loved. I've interrupted Hotel de Dream to reread White's novel A Boy's Own Story, which I love, and White's autobiography My Lives. Koblenz is a boy's own city with lots to do for lads and dads or whole families too. But what I got was a a modern fairytale colliding with a medieval romance and a boy's own adventure story. Yet, reading “Baby Be-Bop,” I never thought about the author's gender. But it was his 1982 novel, A Boy's Own Story, that cemented his place as America's preeminent chronicler of the gay experience. And this isn't genre writing either. Francesca Lia Block had transcended gender because she so perfectly observes and tells a boy's own story—my story. Judging by the title and the pages edged in black, I expected a Gothic horror story. Edwhite.jpg Written with an astonishing sensuousness, the poised voice of the nameless narrator–a boy growing up in the 1950s–A Boy's Own Story exudes a mixture of tenderness and anguish.