REVIEWS

NEW YORK TIMES

Janet Maslin

Head-tossing, high-strung comedy....theatrical flair and outlandish humor....superhumanly snappy....gallows humor with sprightly flair...artfully acerbic.

PHILADELPHIA
INQUIRER

Staff

...utterly beguiling book-length debut by a young writer with voice enough for three boys....Leleux's book wears its heart on its sleeve. It is unapologetically witty, irreverent, a romp on paper...

THE HOUSTON
CHRONICLE

Staff Review

[Molly] Ivins' subversive wit...in The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy, Leleux's funny, smartly written coming-of-age story.

PAT CONROY

Author of The Prince of Tides

...hilarious, tender, and heartbreaking—further proof that Mr. Leleux is ripening into one of the best prose stylists in America.

JOHN BERENDT

Author of Goodnight In the Garden of Good & Evil

Robert Leleux's hilarious and poignant memoir of his fractured family takes an unexpected, wholly satisfying turn at the end: as lives ebb, memories fail, and long-withheld loves emerge.

BARNES & NOBLE

BN.com

If David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs combined their talents, they might come up with something to match Robert Leleux's mesmerizing memoir.

TIMES PICAYUNE

Susan Larson

....a pure joyride for the reader.

LIBRARY JOURNAL

Staff Writer

...perceptive as well as funny and poignant.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Starred Review

...laugh-out-loud tale of dysfunction and discovery is a compulsively readable treat; any fan of Augusten Burroughs or David Sedaris owes it to themselves to pick it up.