Book cover for A Boy's Own Story

A Boy's Own Story

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16 June 2016
256 pages
9781509813872
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Edmund White has crossed The Catcher in the Rye with De Profundis, J. D. Salinger with Oscar Wilde, to create an extraordinary novel
The boy's self-portrait shines with authenticity, he is an extraordinary but plausible mixture of sweetness and deviousness . . . White's prose is marvellously sensual while his eye is sharply satiric . . . outstanding