A Boy's Own Story

Author: Edmund White
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0679642544

A Boy's Own Story (Modern Library)

For more than two decades, Edmund White has been widely recognized as America's preeminent gay writer. Get A Boy's Own Story literature books for free.
"He has a novelist'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," wrote The New York Times Book Review. "White possesses the rare combination of a po-etic sense of language and an ironic sense of humor," declared Newsweek. "[He] is unquestionably the foremost American gay novelist." Commemorating the twentieth anni-versary of A Boy's Own Story, this Modern Library edition presents White's autobiographical novel together with an Introduction by prizewinning novelist Allan Gurganus and a new Afterword Check A Boy's Own Story our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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