Original Youth: The Real Story of Edmund White's Boyhood

By Keith Fleming

Book Overview

It isn't often that a memoirist gets the biographic treatment, but the story of Edmund White's youth was too dramatic to resist. In this bracing true-life tale, Keith Fleming, White's nephew whom he adopted, captures a particularly unusual childhood. Forced to be a confidante to his unhinged mother, terrified and attracted to his imperious father, the teenager White became a Buddhist, a cruiser of hustlers and married men, and an FBI drug informant on his way to ultimate fame as a leading gay literary figure. Drawing on personal knowledge, letters, photographs, and extensive interviews with those closest to Eddie, Fleming neither exploits his subject nor sugar-coats him. Original Youth is a rich portrait of a complex subject and a wild child who managed to survive and flourish against all odds.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931160201
• ISBN13: 9781931160209
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Green Candy Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 6.0"