Boys Own Story Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for General Fiction (2014) and profoundly surprising international literary

and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Boys Own Story Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for General Fiction (2014) and profoundly surprising international literaryAn 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.