# A Boy's Own Story

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- Book: [A Boy's Own Story](https://www.bookquiver.com/edmund-white/a-boys-own-story) ([A Boy's Own Story.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edmund-white/a-boys-own-story.md))
- Authors: [Edmund White](https://www.bookquiver.com/edmund-white)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4311-484-0
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2009-02-24
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The “extraordinary novel” (The New York Times Book Review) about one boy’s coming-of-age during the 1950s—and one of the most groundbreaking portrayals of gay life in American fiction...