In the following review, Wilson asserts that "In White's growing-up novel, [A Boy's Own Story, the tale of the child's peregrinations in the treacherous land of desire is, ...
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Critical Essay by Alan Hollinghurst
A Boy's Own Story is on the face of it a book about growing up; behind its title lies the salubrious little-manly world of the Boy's Own Paper, with ...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
White's shimmering style in this memoir of a homosexual childhood makes every sentence a pleasure to read, and then once that initial savoring is past, we c...
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Critical Essay by J[amie] B[aylis]
Edmund White's four previous books split neatly into two general categories—novels highly acclaimed for their polished prose … and nonfiction b...
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Critical Essay by Catherine R. Stimpson
Edmund White has crossed "The Catcher in the Rye" with "De Profundis," J. D. Salinger with Oscar Wilde, to create an extraordinary ...
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Critical Review by Carter Wilson
