A Boy's Own Story (Vintage International) - Softcover

White, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375707409 ISBN 13: 9780375707407

Publisher: Vintage Books, 2000

Synopsis

At home, in school, and on the streets, a homosexual teenager growing up in the 1950s moves through comic sexual experiments, isolation, fear, and exciting expectations toward an escape from childhood and a firm sense of self, in this classic coming-of-age novel. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Review:

aWith "A Boyas Own Story" American literature is larger by one classic novel.a
a"The Washington Post Book World"
aEdmund White has crossed J. D. Salinger with Oscar Wilde to create an extraordinary novel.a
a"The New York Times Book Review"
aEvery so often a novel comes along that is so ambitious in its intention and so confident of its voice that it reminds us what a singular and potent thing a novel can be. One of these is "A Boyas Own Story,"a
a"San Francisco Chronicle"

"With "A Boy''s Own Story" American literature is larger by one classic novel."
-"The Washington Post Book World"

"Edmund White has crossed J. D. Salinger with Oscar Wilde to create an extraordinary novel."
-"The New York Times Book Review"

"Every so often a novel comes along that is so ambitious in its intention and so confident of its voice that it reminds us what a singular and potent thing a novel can be. One of these is "A Boy''s Own Story"."
-"San Francisco Chronicle"
"With "A Boy's Own Story" American literature is larger by one classic novel."
-"The Washington Post Book World"
"Edmund White has crossed J. D. Salinger with Oscar Wilde to create an extraordinary novel."
-"The New York Times Book Review"
"Every so often a novel comes along that is so ambitious in its intention and so confident of its voice that it reminds us what a singular and potent thing a novel can be. One of these is "A Boy's Own Story.""
-"San Francisco Chronicle"

"With A Boy's Own Story American literature is larger by one classic novel."
-The Washington Post Book World

"Edmund White has crossed J. D. Salinger with Oscar Wilde to create an extraordinary novel."
-The New York Times Book Review

"Every so often a novel comes along that is so ambitious in its intention and so confident of its voice that it reminds us what a singular and potent thing a novel can be. One of these is A Boy's Own Story."
-San Francisco Chronicle

Book Description:

'Every so often a novel comes along that is so ambitious in its intention and so confident of its voice that it reminds us what a singular and potent thing a novel can be' San Francisco Chronicle

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375707409
• ISBN 13: 9780375707407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 217