Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 06/05/2021
ISBN: 9780224101905
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 260mm x 24mm x 194mm
Weight: 950g
RRP: £16.99
*A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun Home
All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret.
The secret to superhuman strength.
She has looked for it in her favourite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism, therapy, and most obsessively, in her lifelong passion for exercise. Skiing, running, karate, cycling, yoga, weight lifting - you name it, she's tried it. "Oh, to be self-sufficient! Hard as a rock! An island!"
But as she gets older, her body isn't getting any stronger. And in a changing, sometimes overwhelming world, are "cantaloupe-sized guns" all a person needs? Maybe the all-important secret is not where she expected to find it . . .
In this, her third graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel has written a deeply layered, personal story about selfhood, self-sabotage, mortality, addiction, bliss, wonder, and the concerns of a generation. This is an extraordinary, laugh-out-loud chronicle of the conundrums we all grapple with as we seek our true place in the world.
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 06/05/2021
ISBN: 9780224101905
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 260mm x 24mm x 194mm
Weight: 950g
RRP: £16.99
The long-anticipated return of . . . one of the most acclaimed authors in the genre, this should be one of the year's highlights.
Every bit as deep, searching and multi-layered as Bechdel's previous efforts . . . The new book is fun, too . . . A sort of very sweaty A Portrait of an Artist.
Funny and moving.