Matt Bomer to narrate new audiobook edition of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life

Actor Matt Bomer is set to narrate a new audiobook edition of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life (Picador). Fellow Travelers, Maestro and Magic Mike star will feature on a new edition of the book 10 years after it was released. 

Yanagihara said: "It’s a dream to have Matt Bomer – an actor of great generosity, beauty, and depth – as the new voice of the A Little Life audiobook. New listeners will get to experience the book as I’d always hoped; repeat ones will, I think, find new dimensions thanks to Matt’s subtlety and skill."

The book, which follows four college classmates as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Booker Prize. The book follows their relationships, which are "tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades", as the group is held together by their devotion to Jude, a man "scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma".

Bomer told Vulture magazine: "I was truly, deeply moved to be asked to read Hanya’s brilliant, heartbreaking and timeless novel. It’s a book that I’ve been fascinated with since I first heard about it, and having the opportunity to bring these characters to life was both a profound responsibility for me and a chance to fall in love with her work all over again. It’s a piece that, for me at least, changed me as a person after I read it – and what more can we ask for in art?"