How long does it take to read A Boy's Own Story?
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 221 pages, about 60,775 words. Written for young adults.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Edmund White is a patriarch of gay American literature. A Boy's Own Story is the first of his trio of autobiographical novels (followed by The Beautiful Room Is Empty and The Farewell Symphony). It begins with experiments and realizations of adolescence and proceeds through his firsthand account of the Stonewall uprising.
Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Fiction, Gay youth, Teenage boys, Gay men
