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A boy's own story / Edmund White.
LIBRA PS3573.H463 B69 1983
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Edmund, 1940-2025.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage boys--United States--Fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- Gay youth--United States--Fiction.
- Gay youth.
- United States.
- Genre:
- novels.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- 217 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Picador, 1983, ©1982.
- Summary:
- Coming-of-age in the 1950s and struggling with his homosexuality, a nameless narrator seeks the consolations of a fantastic imagination and fills his head with romantic expectations. His distant, divorced parents exacerbate his hunger for emotional connection, and he endures the unhelpful attentions of a priest and a psychoanalyst. In time, he recognises the need to be loved by the men in his life and, in the surprising conclusion, escapes his childhood forever with one unforgettable act.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Dutton, 1982.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0330281518
- 9780330281515
- OCLC:
- 59865985
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