Alison Bechdel

The Secret to Superhuman Strength (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Agraphic memoir of Fun Home author's lifelong love affair withexercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of contemporary fitness fads. The Best Graphic Book of 2021byPublishers Weekly ANew York TimesBest Graphic Novel of 2021 ANew York TimesNotable Book An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of the Year ABoston GlobeBest Book of the Year ASt. Louis Post DispatchBest Book of the Year NPR, 12 Books NPR Staffers Loved Shelf AwarenessBest Books of 2021 Comics and culturalsuperstarAlison Bechdel delivers a deeplylayered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s ("Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!") to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes throughan ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other gear. But the more Bechdel tries to improve herself, the more her self appears to be the thing in her way. She turns for enlightenment to Easternphilosophersand literary figures, including Beat writer Jack Kerouac, whose search for self-transcendence in the great outdoors appears in moving conversation with the author's own. This gifted artist and not-getting-any-younger exerciser comes to a soulful conclusion. The secret to superhuman strength lies not in six-pack abs, but in something much less clearly defined: facing her own non-transcendent but all-important interdependence with others. "Part of the pleasure of Bechdel's books is the conversation she's in with herself, all the layers: the drawings, the captions, the dialogue, the annotations of the world, the storyboards that move the narrative, the burbling monologue of her mind. This is a true delight of graphic literature, and nobody does it better." -The New York Times Book Review "Drawing is often seen as a cartoonist's primary skill, but Bechdel can also really write. The various strings of her narrative are woven together in a way that feels fresh, clever and moving." -The Sunday Times (UK)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780544385788
• Artikelnr.: 72479800

Autorenporträt

ALISON BECHDEL's cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the New York Times bestselling and Time magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and Are You My Mother? Most recently, The Secret to Superman Strength was named a New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021. Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow, among many other honors.