0330281518 
Paperback A boy's own story / Edmund White.
Publication year: 1994
Format: Paperback
Edition: New [edition].
Publisher: London : Picador,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780330281515 (pbk.) :
Notes: Previous edition: New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982. The protagonist of this story is a homosexual, and his story is of a life in which homosexuality is a shaping force. Set in the American Midwest of the 1950s the book tells how the frustrated 15-year-old becomes the guardian of public morals. 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 Boys 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 New York Times Review A breathtaking evocation of a young boy growing up in the fifties in an American town . . . The books 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 boys sexualit
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