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A Boy's Own Story

A Boy's Own Story

A Boy’s Own Story is a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White.


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“All his leisure clothes were absurd — jokes, really — as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.”

Source: A Boy's Own Story (1982), Chapter One (p. 3).

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