Full name: City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s

Author: Edmund White Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781596914025 1596914025

Groundbreaking literary icon Edmund White reflects on his remarkable life in New York in an era when the city was economically devastated but incandescent with art and ideas. White struggles to gain literary recognition, witnesses the rise of the gay rights movement, and has memorable encounters with luminaries from Elizabeth Bishop to William Burroughs, Susan Sontag to Jasper Johns. Recording his ambitions and desires, recalling lovers and literary heroes, White displays the wit, candor, and generosity that have defined his unique voice over the decades. Similar books: My Lives by Edmund White My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley 1185 Park Avenue by Anne Roiphe Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas How I Grew by Mary McCarthy Slipstream by Elizabeth Jane Howard An Unfinished Woman by Lillian Hellman Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood Bronx Primitive by Kate Simon Kitchen Privileges by Mary Higgins Clark The Duke of Deception by Geoffrey Wolff Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman Fairyland by Alysia Abbott The Burning Library by Edmund White The Flaneur by Edmund White Secret Historian by Justin Spring A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa