A Boy's Own Story (Modern Library Classics)

A Boy's Own Story (Modern Library Classics)
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For more than two decades, Edmund White has been widely recognized as Americaâ€™s preeminent gay writer. â€œHe has a novelistâ€™s eye for the telling detail or the remarkable phrase and, like Proust himself, concentrates upon the minutiae of the past so that it might live again,â€ wrote The New York Times Book Review. â€œWhite possesses the rare combination of a po-etic sense of language and an ironic sense of humor,â€ declared Newsweek. â€œ[He] is unquestionably the foremost American gay novelist.â€ Commemorating the twentieth anni-versary of A Boyâ€™s Own Story, this Modern Library edition presents Whiteâ€™s autobiographical novel together with an Introduction by prizewinning novelist Allan Gurganus and a new Afterword by the author himself.

A Boyâ€™s Own Story, with equal parts stunning lyricism and unabashed humor, traces a nameless narratorâ€™s coming-of-age in the 1950s. Struggling with his homosexuality, the narrator seeks the consolations of a fantastic imagination and fills his head with romantic expectations (â€œI believed without a doubt in a better world, which was adulthood or New York or Paris or love.â€) 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 recognizes the need to be loved by the men in his life and, in the surprising conclusion, escapes his childhood forever with one unforgettable act.

â€œWith A Boyâ€™s Own Story, American literature is larger by one classic novel,â€ wrote The Washington Post Book World. â€œNo reader, straight or gay . . . can fail to experience shock after shock of recognition in these pages, and few, I would bet, will be able to withhold a one-to-one sympathy from the unnamed narrator, even when he is being, by the standards of only yesterday, â€˜shocking.â€™â€
Country USA
Brand Modern Library
Manufacturer Modern Library
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2002-05-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679642541

Country	USA
Brand	Modern Library
Manufacturer	Modern Library
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2002-05-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780679642541

A Boy's Own Story (Modern Library Classics)

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