A Boy's Own Story: A Novel Entertainment_Gift_Guide A New York Times and

A New York Times and NPR Best Book of the Year

• tactfully say no to extra work when people put you on the spot

Bestselling series: More than 1 million copies sold

her understanding of human nature

and determined to reclaim his once-great city from those who stole its innocence

A Boy's Own Story: A Novel Entertainment_Gift_Guide A New York Times andThe extraordinary novel (The New York Times Book Review) about one boys coming of age during the 1950sand one of the most groundbreaking portrayals of gay life in American fiction The best American narrative of sexual awakening since Catcher in the Rye. Chicago Sun Times Ridiculed by his classmates and beset by aloof parents and a cruel sister, the unnamed narrator of Edmund Whites first autobiographical novel finds solace in literature, works of art,