Pageboy
  • Published: 6 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529902051
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $26.99

Pageboy

A Memoir: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

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Paperback
14 May 2024
Tr. Paperback
6 Jun 2023
EBook
6 Jun 2023
Audiobook
6 Jun 2023
Hardback
6 Jul 2023
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The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course.' Jamie Lee Curtis

'Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn't simply a book on what it means to be trans, it's about what it means to be human.' Alok Vaid-Menon

Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Elliot Page captures the universal human experience of searching for ourselves and our place in this complicated world.

'Can I kiss you?' It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. The unthinkable. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans person. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself, without the repression he'd carried for so long. But for Elliot, two steps forward had always come with one step back.

With Juno's massive success, Elliot became one of the world's most beloved actors. His dreams were coming true, but the pressure to perform suffocated him. He was forced to play the part of the glossy young starlet, a role that made his skin crawl, on and off set. The career that had been an escape out of his reality and into a world of imagination was suddenly a nightmare. As he navigated criticism and abuse from some of the most powerful people in Hollywood, a past that snapped at his heels and a society dead set on forcing him into a binary, Elliot often stayed silent, unsure of what to do. Until enough was enough.

The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his story in a groundbreaking and inspiring memoir about love, family, fame - and stepping into who we truly are with strength, joy and connection.

© Elliot Page 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
  • Published: 6 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529902051
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Elliot Page

ELLIOT PAGE is an Academy Award-nominated actor, a producer and a director who currently stars in the hit series The Umbrella Academy.

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Praise for Pageboy

The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn't simply a book on what it means to be trans, it's about what it means to be human.

Alok Vaid-Menon

Raw, harrowing and often heartbreaking to read... Page's book arrives, as if on cue, in a moment when the trans community is facing even more danger than when he started writing it just over a year ago.

LA Times

It doesn't feel like the smoothed-over result of cautious editing, "as told to" anyone but Page himself. Such rawness, as a document of his life story, only makes it all the more singular.

Daily Telegraph

Brutally honest ... Powerful.

New York Times Book Review

Eloquent and enthralling... [Pageboy] is an intense, emotional read, delivered in image-drenched prose. ... 'Let me just exist with you,' he writes, 'happier than ever.' Reading those words nearly made me cry. Page's plea is small. It also feels very big.

Washington Post

Pageboy is like listening to a friend... It's impossible to miss the truth in his words: 'I wouldn't be typing this right now if it weren't for you and your care.' ... Now is an excellent time to read this humanizing and well-written memoir.

Associated Press

At its heart [Pageboy] is the story of his transitioning.... He writes, rather beautifully, about gender dysphoria, top surgery and finally finding himself. But the book is so much more than a tale of transition. Pageboy is a modern-day Hollywood Babylon, written by a sensitive soul.

Guardian

Page's compassion-inducing account feels vital ... Heartfelt and courageous in its honesty.

i Newspaper

Pageboy proves that he is a profoundly talented writer... It is a love story of sorts in which the greatest love turns out to be Page's alignment with his truest self.

Elizabeth Day

Vivid… Moving… Juicy

NPR

A story of survival

TIME

An unflinching account of a life pushed to the brink, and what it means to untangle ourselves from the expectations of others – it's a must-read for anyone in the process of finding themselves.

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