A Boy's Own Story - Brossura

White, Edmund

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375707409 ISBN 13: 9780375707407

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 2000

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

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

"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

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

L'autore:

Edmund White's most recent novel, The Married Man, (0-375-40005-2) is available from Knopf. Mr. White lives in New York.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375707409
• ISBN 13: 9780375707407
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 217