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A Boy's Own Story

Edmund White

At home, in school, and on the streets, a homosexual teenager moves through comic sexual experiments, isolation, fear, and exciting expectations toward an escape from childhood and a firm sense of self.

GenresTeenage boysFictionGay youthNineteen fiftiesBildungsromansAutobiographical fiction

196 pages, 10 editions

English edition · First published 1983 by Penguin Books · ISBN 9780143114840

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Editions

10 editions

English

  • A boy's own story · Penguin Books · 2009 · ISBN 9780143114840 This page
  • A Boy's Own Story · Pan Macmillan UK · 2016 · ISBN 9781925480375
  • A Boy's Own Story: A Novel (The Edmund Trilogy) · Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · 2015 · ISBN 9781511338561
  • Boy's Own Story · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 2014 · ISBN 9781322239590
  • A Boy's Own Story · Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press) · 2014 · ISBN 9781497686083
  • Boy's Own Story · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 2014 · ISBN 9781497686090
  • A Boy's Own Story · Picador · 2002 · ISBN 9780330412261
  • A Boy's Own Story · New American Library · 1983 · ISBN 9780452261235
  • A Boy's Own Story · Picador · 1983 · ISBN 9780330281515
  • A Boy's Own Story · Plume · 1983 · ISBN 9780452263529

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