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This is the sequel to A Boy's Own Story, taking the narrator through the 1950s and '60s as he matures as a gay man at the University of Michigan and later in New York.
In this novel, White chronicles the lifting of his own psychological self-oppression and the first sweet years of sexual and social liberation. This is a journey inside the soul of a man whose spiritual and sexual odysseys chart the development of a "gay sensibility", which was beginning to manifest itself in the heady days of early 70's. As such, this sits with novels like Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance as a fascinating and touching testament to an era past, but not forgotten, for its gains and its tragic losses. The third book in White's trilogy is The Farewell Symphony.
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1994
Author: Edmund White