Edmund White’s City Boy
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s
by Edmund White
-Reviewed by Shahnaz Habib
Early in his memoir City Boy, Edmund White reminisces about his friendship with the poet James Merrill and reflects on what it is like to have known someone who was destined for greatness: “[T]hey were once young, uncertain, had a roll of fat, about the waistband…. Their careers which in retrospect look so triumphant and inevitable, might just as easily have come to naught.”
In his early chapters, White offers readers the opportunity to …
