Alison Bechdel
The Secret to Superhuman Strength Hardcover Book
A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF 2021 PICKA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021From the bestselling, awardwinning author of Fun Home comes this Christmass mustgift graphic novel.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, weightlifting you name it, shes tried it. "Oh, to be selfsufficient! Hard as a rock! An island!"But as she gets older, her body isnt getting any stronger. And in a changing, sometimes overwhelming world, are "cantaloupesized guns" all a person needs? Maybe the allimportant secret is not where she expected to find it . . .The Secret to Superhuman Strength practically glows with a beguiling mixture of intellect, warmth and humour Daily TelegraphIn this, her third graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel has written a deeply layered, personal story about selfhood, selfsabotage, mortality, addiction, bliss, wonder, and the concerns of a generation. This is an extraordinary, laughoutloud chronicle of the conundrums we all grapple with as we seek our true place in the world. Truly, a mustgift book this Christmas.
Binding: Hardcover;36 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FXL; Weight: 1046 g; Dimensions: 260 x 195 x 27
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A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF 2021 PICKA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021From the bestselling, awardwinning author of Fun Home comes this Christmass mustgift graphic novel.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, weightlifting you name it, shes tried it. "Oh, to be selfsufficient! Hard as a rock! An island!"But as she gets older, her body isnt getting any stronger. And in a changing, sometimes overwhelming world, are "cantaloupesized guns" all a person needs? Maybe the allimportant secret is not where she expected to find it . . .The Secret to Superhuman Strength practically glows with a beguiling mixture of intellect, warmth and humour Daily TelegraphIn this, her third graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel has written a deeply layered, personal story about selfhood, selfsabotage, mortality, addiction, bliss, wonder, and the concerns of a generation. This is an extraordinary, laughoutloud chronicle of the conundrums we all grapple with as we seek our true place in the world. Truly, a mustgift book this Christmas.
Binding: Hardcover;36 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FXL; Weight: 1046 g; Dimensions: 260 x 195 x 27
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