City Boy
#1844 of 3,809 books · #633 in Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2009).
A memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s, from the acclaimed author Edmund White.
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- ISBN-13
- 9781408804438
- Genre
- Topics
- 1970s New York City cultureLGBTQ life and identityLiterary and artistic circles
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(2009)
Other awarded books from Edmund White
- Genet (2010)2 wins · 28 score
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