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A boy's own story / Edmund White ; introduction by Allan Gurganus ; afterword by the author.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS3573.H463 B6 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Edmund, 1940-2025.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage boys--Fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- Gay youth--Fiction.
- Gay youth.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Azzolina, David S. 1957- (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 227 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- 2002 Modern Library edition, [Twentieth anniversary edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Library, 2002.
- Summary:
- "In this first volume of an autobiographical trilogy, a nameless narrator reminisces about his homosexual childhood and his conflicting emotions in coming of age during the 1950s. At fifteen years of age, the boy hopes ' that 'he is just passing through a homosexual "stage." At prep school he goes to a psychiatrist who pops pills and talks of his own problems -- and with no help from this man he begins slowly to see the real dimensions of his own life." Newsweek. "This first-person novel is 'written with the flourish of a master stylist....It is an endearing portrait of a child's longing to be charming, popular, powerful, and loved, and of his struggles with adults...[told with] sensitivity and elegance.'" Harpers.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by David Azzolina.
- Other Format:
- Online version: White, Edmund, 1940- Boy's own story.
- ISBN:
- 0679642544
- 9780679642541
- OCLC:
- 48951388
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- Publisher description
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