Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story: The Graphic Novel

Featured in Interview Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, The Daily Beast and on Scott Alexander Hess’ Hot Lit!

“A provocative coming-of-age story, adapted for a new generation of readers, offering further insight and emotional depth to a landmark work in the panoply of LGBTQ fiction. A true tribute to the original, and to Edmund White’s inimitable voice, on the 40th anniversary of his breakthrough novel’s publication.” —John Irving, author of The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules

“In this gorgeous graphic adaptation, much of Edmund White’s sublimely wrought prose is absent by necessity. But the exquisite, dreamlike illustrations by Igor Karash have their own distinctive power to immerse us in the young narrator’s loneliness and relentless self-consciousness—quite a feat in a format that relies on showing rather than telling. This is a vivid and sensuous new take on White’s coming-of-age classic.” —Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home and The Secret to Superhuman Strength

“A revelatory account of growing up gay, Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story is an honest, affecting graphic memoir.” —Foreword Reviews

“This artful, heartfelt adaptation illuminates a modern classic for a new generation of readers.” —Publishers Weekly

“A Boy’s Own Story is lyrical, witty, unabashed, and authentic…The poetic nuances of White’s language float across sumptuously painted panels that evoke 1950s Cincinnati, 1980s Paris, and every dreamlike moment in between.” –Graphic Policy

“[A Boy’s Own Story] is made artfully new, transformed into an impressive, dazzling graphic novel.” –Shelf Awareness

“This is likely, as White hopes in his new preface, to draw new generations to his work, especially those for whom the graphic novel is their preferred reading mode.” —Library Journal

“No less important or less literary than its original novelized older sibling, the A Boy’s Own Story graphic novel, published by Top Shelf Productions and adapted by Brian Alessandro, Michael Carroll and evocatively illustrated by Igor Karash, is a wonder and joy to read.” –BIFF BAM POP!