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A Boy's Own Story

Author: Edmund White
Publication Date: 20020906

The protagonist of this story is a homosexual, and his story is of a life in which homosexuality is a shaping force. Set in the American midwest of the 1950s, the novel tells how the frustrated 15-year-old, whom the world would despise if it knew him, becomes the guardian of public morals.

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Fanny
A fiction

Author: Edmund White
Publication Date: 4 November 2004

In her fifties Fanny Trollope, mother of the novelist Anthony, became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Now, twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet: the biography of her old friend Frances Wright, the Scottish radical and feminist.

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The Beautiful Room is Empty

Author: Edmund White
Publication Date: 19881104

The sexually obsessed, yet conventional narrator from the book "A Boy's Own Story" has emerged from adolescen...

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A Boy's Own Story

Author: Edmund White
Publication Date: 14 March 1986

With a new introduction by the author

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The Flaneur
A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris

Author: Edmund White
Publication Date: 19 February 2001

A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through a city without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the place and in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic. Here, the author recounts everything from the debates among French law-makers to the juicy details of Colette's life in the Palais Royal.

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Forgetting Elena

Author: Edmund White
Publication Date: 10 August 1984

two early novels from Edmund White...

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