My Lives

“This is Edmund White’s best book by far, and a classic of emotional intelligence and generosity. . . . My Lives subsumes and concentrates all his other work.”—Daily Telegraph (London)

No one has been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, starting with A Boy's Own Story, White here takes fiction out of his story and delivers the facts of his life in all their shocking and absorbing veri...