Alison

This graphic novel chronicles the fictional life story of Alison Porter, whose talent as a painter blossoms in bohemian 1970s London.

Publisher Marketing: Alison is a haunting book, complex and intimate. Lizzy Stewart has written and drawn the aches and confusions of love and growing up with immense skill.--Posy Simmonds (Gemma Bovery) Review Quotes : Mournful, lovely... Stewart's dynamic, warm, flowing art invites the reader in.-- "The New York Times Book Review" Review Quotes : There's a quiet but powerful immediacy to [Stewart's work] that will appeal to lit fic fans who may not always pick up comics.-- "Publishers Weekly" Review Quotes : It's a heartening journey, a delicious portrait of London and a more universal tale of a working-class young woman making a life in a world that has not been designed for the likes of her. For all its effortlessness [...] Alison ends up carrying a great emotional heft. It's a lovely book, and I cried at the end.-- "The Guardian" Review Quotes : Subtle and deliciously complicated, this is a big book on big subjects, but lightly, elegantly done. I loved it.--Tessa Hadley (Free Love) Review Quotes : This book is a testament to the right to choose your own life. It made me long for my friends; the dreams we have shared over the years and the ways in which they make the world feel possible. I want to give a copy to everyone I love.--Jessica Andrews (Saltwater) Review Quotes : Every now and again a book comes along that is such a bright joy, so true, so beautiful and moving. Alison is one of those books.--Jessie Burton (The Miniaturist) Review Quotes : Elegantly told, exquisitely illustrated, Alison is defined by its precision even as it overflows with important ideas and feelings about being a female artist in the modern world. Lizzy Stewart has given a real gift with this smart, moving, heartfelt book.--Jami Attenberg (I Came All This Way to Meet You) Review Quotes : Stewart takes the tone and emotional depth of Posy Simmonds and weaves her own magic to create a remarkable graphic novel. Magnificence beckons.-- "Slings & Arrows" Review Quotes : Across sublimely written, memoir-style passages, we watch as Alison prevails; navigating life, love and her burgeoning work in a sequence of milestones, some devastating, some euphoric, but all thrillingly real.-- "The Irish Times" Review Quotes : A clever portrait of an artist's journey that smartly combines prose and art, Alison is beautiful in every way. The tale is so convincing that I still can't believe it isn't a memoir. Lizzy Stewart is an unparalleled storyteller.-- "Powells' Best Graphic Novels of 2023" Publisher Marketing : Alison tells the story of a young British woman who, in her twenties, seizes upon the opportunity to escape from her quiet life in Dorset to the thrumming art scene of late-1970s London. But the vehicle for her escape is a charismatic older man whose reputation as an artist and philanderer casts a shadow which will follow Alison for years as she pursues her painting career.

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 192 | Publication Date: 2023-07-18