Author: Edmund White

______________One of the best writers of my generation - John IrvingA playful yet searching novel of gay life in the New York of Ed Koch and Studio...

______________This comedy of sexual manners may be White's finest novel - Sunday TimesAn elegant study of the paradoxes and half-truths that emerge...

______________'I find it impossible to imagine anyone better read than White Wisdom and a certain kind of tenderness are to be found on every page...

______________An open-throttled tour of New York City during the bad old days of the 1960s and early '70s ... it's all here in exacting and eye-pop...

______________ 'Elegant, filthy - and quite possibly the queerest thing you will read all year.' - Guardian 'Intriguing and inventive.'...

______________'An epic novel' - Telegraph'A worldly wise delight' - Observer'Another brilliant accomplishment from one of the countrys most indispe...

______________'A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book - Sunday TelegraphAn artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris - Guardia...

A Boy's Own Story traces an unnamed narrator's coming-of-age during the 1950s. With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst, author of The Line of Bea...