A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White

‘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 Boy’s 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... This 1985 Picador Paperback is in good condition. Owner's Name inside. Cover rubbed.

ISBN: 9780330281515 SKU: 1572273 This image is of the actual book.

Location: Fiction