Category: | Book |
By (author): | Gloeckner, Phoebe |
Subject: | COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Contemporary Women |
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary | |
FICTION / Coming of Age | |
WEIRD / Graphic Novels | |
Publisher: | North Atlantic Books |
Published: | July 2015 |
Format: | Book-paperback |
Pages: | 320 |
Size: | 9.24in x 6.53in x 0.85in |
From The Publisher* | First released in 2002, this provocative, critically acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture starring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, and Alexander Skarsgård. |
Review Quote* | "Phoebe Gloeckner... is creating some of the edgiest work about young women's lives in any medium."-The New York Times "One of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America."-Salon "It's the most honest depiction of sexuality in a long, long time; as a meditation on adolescence, it picks up a literary ball that's been only fitfully carried after Salinger."-Nerve.com "I thought that Phoebe Gloeckner's story 'Minnie's Third Love' was one of the best comic stories I ever read in my life ... a masterpiece ... she's a great artist."-R. Crumb, cartoonist "Intensity, thy name is Gloeckner... A complicated combination of standard written-through passages, comic strips and illustrations; it's about as far you can go into the realm of the novel without entirely relying on prose... A tough, necessary read."-Rolling Stone "Phoebe Gloeckner's finely crafted drawings and emotionally powerful story-telling ability combine in this terrific collection to tell us painful, sympathetic, and hilariously human truths." -Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead "A pitch-perfect, hauntingly beautiful, deeply empathic conjuring of female adolescence."-Bust magazine "Minnie is one of the most believable teenage protagonists ever written, a complicated, contradictory child posing as a woman. Her 'Diary' is a page-turner of a very high order and a tour de force of emotional intensity and damage."-The San Francisco Chronicle |
Biographical Note | PHOEBE GLOECKNER's comics first appeared in underground publications when she was in her teens. She is the author of the critically acclaimed works A Child's Life and Other Stories and The Diary of a Teenage Girl, as well as the illustrator of the annotated edition of J. G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition. The recipient of an Inkpot Award (2000) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), Gloeckner currently teaches at the University of Michigan's School of Art & Design. |