This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on September 22, 1996. The length of the article is 2383 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: 'A Boy's Own Story' by Edmund White showed the problem of a boy attempting to establish a relationship with his father viewed in terms of the boy's sexual maturation. The novel was published when a national market for gay fiction was beginning, and its prose style was unusual for accepting gay experience as unremarkable. The central figure, a boy caught at different moments between seven and fifteen, is morally isolated by unsuitable adult role models around him. The book ends with the boy's craving for power.Citation DetailsTitle: 'A Boy's Own Story.' (novel by Edmund White)Author: Robert GluckPublication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)Date: September 22, 1996Publisher: Review of Contemporary FictionVolume: v16 Issue: n3 Page: p56(5)Distributed by Thomson Gale