Ep 710 - A Boy’s Own Story, by Edmund White
The late Edmund White’s breakthrough 1983 novel is the first in a trilogy of autobiographical novels that depict key eras in his life as a gay man. A Boy’s Own Story is, as you might expect, about a boy — a boy whose longing for the men in his life leads to powerful (though perhaps not entirely positive) self-understanding.
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