Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story: The Graphic Novel Julio Medem “Seriously funny and penetratingly honest

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Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story: The Graphic Novel Julio Medem “Seriously funny and penetratingly honestBy Edmund White, adapted by Brian Alessandro, Michael Carroll and Igor Karash. Published by Top Shelf. Hardcover, 264 pages, Colour, 2023. A landmark American novel, hailed by the New York Times as J. D. Salinger crossed with Oscar Wilde, is masterfully reimagined as a timeless graphic novel. A Boys Own Story is a now classic coming of age story, but with a twist: the young protagonist is growing up gay during one of the most oppressive periods in