Synopsis: ﾃ??Edmund White has crossed The Catcher in the Rye with De Profundis, J. D. Salinger with Oscar Wilde, to create an extraordinary novel. It is a clear and sinister pool in which goldfish and piranhas both swim. The subject of A Boyﾃ??s Own Story is less a particular boy than the bodies and souls of American men; the teachers and masters; the lovers, brothers, hustlers and friends; the flawed fathers who would be kings to their own sons who should be princesﾃ?? New York Times Review ﾃ??A breathtaking evocation of a young boy growing up in the fifties in an American town . . . The bookﾃ??s extraordinary power lies in the tension between the obsessive longing and then moments of denial, the attempts to transcend or avoid the inescapable fact of the boyﾃ??s sexuality . . . There have been many good novels of adolescence; this one surpasses them allﾃ?? Jeremy Seabrook, New Society ﾃ??The boyﾃ??s self-portrait shines with authenticity, he is an extraordinary but plausible mixture of sweetness and deviousness . . . Add to this the fact that Whiteﾃ??s prose is marvellously sensual while his eye is sharply satiric and you have something of the flavour of an outstanding text which should appeal to a wide audience. The book goes beyond its homosexual theme to say something about the whole process of growing upﾃ?? Robert Nye, Guardian
Title: A Boy's Own Story
Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Picador
Year: 1983
Number of pages: 217
ISBN: 9780330281515
Condition: Used
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