The secret to superhuman strength / Alison Bechdel ; with the extremely extensive coloring collaboration of Holly Rae Taylor.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544387652
- ISBN: 0544387651
- Physical Description: 231 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Other Books by This Author -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- 1960's -- 00's -- 1970's -- 10's -- 1980's -- 20's -- 1990's -- 30's -- 2000's -- 40's -- 2010's -- 50's -- Back Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Back Flap -- Back Cover -- Spine |
Summary, etc.: | From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times. Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered 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 through an 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 Eastern philosophers and 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. A heartrendingly comic chronicle for our times. -- Provided by publisher. "From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times"-- Provided by publisher |
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Subject: | Bechdel, Alison, 1960- > Comic books, strips, etc. Physical fitness > Comic books, strips, etc. Fads > Comic books, strips, etc. |
Genre: | Graphic novels. Autobiographical comics. Humorous fiction. Comics (Graphic works) Nonfiction comics. Humorous comics. |
Available copies
- 23 of 26 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Hotchkiss Library - Sharon. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 26 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Hotchkiss Library - Sharon | 613.7 Bec (Text) | 33660148218573 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | 613.7 BECHDEL, A. (Text) | 32544072673436 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | GN BECHDEL (Text) | 34030148193995 | Adult Graphic Novel | Available | - |
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | COMIX BECHDEL (Text) | 34000151214236 | Adult Comix Graphic Novel | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | GN 921/BECHDEL (Text) | 34029150572021 | Graphic Novel | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | GRA BEC (Text) | 34014150087303 | Adult Graphic Novel | Available | - |
Douglas Library of Hebron | GRAPHIC 613.7 BEC (Text) | 33400148841243 | Graphic Novel | Available | - |
East Side Branch - Bridgeport | B BECHDEL (Text) | 34000151214244 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Easton Public Library | AGN MEM BECHDEL, ALISON (Text) | 37777123603201 | Adult Graphic Novel | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | 613.7 BECHDEL (Text) | 34026143982622 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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