by Edmund White · Playground · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788889113578
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«Un giovane americano» (A Boy's Own Story) is Edmund White's coming-of-age novel, published by Playground in paperback (240 pages, in Italian).
The protagonist recalls his adolescence in the United States of the 1950s: loneliness, the desire to fit in, and the distance from his parents drive him to take refuge in art and imagination. His desire for men confronts him with the guilt and shame of a moralistic society, until he reaches a fuller awareness of himself.
Novel originally published in 1982 as A Boy's Own Story; this 2011 Italian edition features a translation by Alessandro Bocchi.
Will appeal to readers of LGBTQ+ fiction and coming-of-age novels set in the United States of the 1950s.
Edmund Valentine White III was an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and essayist. A pioneering figure in LGBTQ and especially gay literature after the Stonewall riots, he wrote with rare candor about gay identity, relationships, and sex. His work emerged as part of an increasingly solidified and visible LGBTQ community, helping to reshape public narratives at a time when coming out was still a dangerous, even radical act. His writing, noted for intimate depth and literary elegance, includes the semi-autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), and The Farewell Symphony (1997). He also co-authored The Joy of Gay Sex (1977), promoting sex-positive discourse.
