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

This continuation of A Boy's Own Story starts with White's college days and contunues until the Stonewall Rebellion. It's crazy recapping a trip days later, but here goes. 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. Known for his famed semi-autobiographical novels A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty and The Farewell Symphony. He happens to be there when it happens, but that happens to the best of us. Becoming a Man by Paul Monette. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White. The first of writer White's Autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story is an instant classic.