Boys Own Story Condition:Good This powerful and moving bilingual

This powerful and moving bilingual collection affirms the importance of poetry in the formation and perpetuation of Vietnamese national Identity

Julian Schnabel

Publication Date: 12 Oct 2006

But nor is it a very soft science

full of unforgettable images

Boys Own Story Condition:Good This powerful and moving bilingualAn instant classic upon its original publication, A Boys Own Story is the first of Edmund Whites highly acclaimed trilogy of autobiographical novels that brilliantly evoke a young man's coming of age and document American gay life through the last forty years. The nameless narrator in this deeply affecting work reminisces about growing up in the 1950s with emotionally aloof, divorced parents, an unrelenting sister, and the schoolmates who taunt him.