A boy's own story

Edmund White First published 1983

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.

Subjects

fiction
fiction, coming of age
fiction, gay
fiction, lgbtq+, gay
garçons adolescents
gay biography
gay men
gay youth
jeunes homosexuels
lgbtq novels
literature of special gay interest
modern fiction
romans, nouvelles
teenage boys