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title: "City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s"
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# City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s

**Brand:** edmund white
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- **What is this?** City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s by edmund white
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Write On
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2017*

“Writing,” said Anne Freedgood, author Edmund White’s sometime editor, “is entering into a contract with the reader.” One can assume that contract includes honesty, originality, and expressiveness. White honors Freedgood’s dictum with this sweetly earnest, bracingly revealing, and rambunctious memoir of becoming a writer while living in New York City during the 60s and 70s.White loads his memoir with enormous detail – he is an extraordinary personal historian. Yet, his wry observations and self-effacing humor turns this nostalgic narrative into a juicy, fly-on-the-wall, coming-of-age writing story. New York City’s manic energy was a magnet for misfits, posers, and cultural outlaws who evolved into a merry band of creative geniuses.Another unexpected joy of White’s memoir was his ability to be in the right place at the right time. While shopping in a bookstore, he overhears a phone conversation between the bookstore owner and Jack Kerouac, who was desperate to sell an old manuscript. He drinks espresso with an “oversize girl who swore she was going to be a famous pop singer some day” (she became Mama Cass of the Mamas and the Papas), He was present “by chance” when the Stonewall was raided, and joined the protest against the police.Present, but on the fringes marks his early literary forays. Gradually, as his writing and contacts improve, his circle exponentially expands exposing him to the top talent of the day across the arts spectrum. Many of these people nurture both his sense of self and his writing career.White fulfilled his contract with this reader. “City Boy” is a revelatory romp through the NYC of the 60s and 70s, as well as an intimate dive into the making of a literary life.

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    but if you like high-literary gossip for the 1965-1985 period
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2017*

Well, what a period piece this is!  and I am not referring to the sex.  Who can remember a New York (or a US, or a world) in which Susan Sontag, or Richard Howard, or any other NY Review of Books god/goddess -- was a cynosure, a diva in restaurants etc?  Those days are gone.  I have warmed to E White -- he plays the "wasn't I naive? wasn't i a nervous debutante? card a bit often, but if you like high-literary gossip for the 1965-1985 period, this is red meat.  White is a friendly guide.  Its interesting to compare this to, say, Merrill's autobiographical book, or Isherwood's diaries -- they seem so pawed-over, so distressed, so unhappy, but so "superior" in thier art -- White reads likea (slightly) dotty old uncle telling you about stuff in a generous way that recognizes that, 30 years later, you musdt amuse us because....we are not really that interested in YOU.  A fine performance.

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    Vivid picture of the New York art and gay scene in 60s and 70s
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2019*

Edmund White writes with keen observations; detailed strokes of the landscape he knows so well. It is almost like gossip but not quite because it is literature after all. The characters in the book come to life with wit and accuracy. How true picture this book paints does not matter because it is truthful enough to make us believe its own truth.

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