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A Boy's Own Story Edmund White
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

It's crazy recapping a trip days later, but here goes. A Boy's own story of Imaginary combat. A Boy's Own Story is White's most accessible novel. Mathers was one of the greatest collectors of toy soldiers in Paris. A Boy's Own Story took away that pain and made me an open and strong person. I turn to his work for help when tragedy strikes: the loss of my mother at 17 or the recent death of my boyfriend. By Harry Pearson, published by Little Brown, 2007. A Boy's Own Story by Jonathan Huxley. The path to his present pre-eminence was long and strewn with obstacles. Since that auspicious beginning, White has authored novels that deal with similar subject matter, and the arc of his work traces the evolution of gay life. Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. One reads him for the beauty of his sentences, their craft and their care. His biography on Wikipedia reads like some Boy's Own story. It is, to pun on the title of White's autobiographical novel, A Boy's Own Story, his own story not of coming out, but of coming in to his own as a writer.