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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for
Alison Bechdel
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Description for The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for
Paperback. Offers an insight into the lesbian society of 1980s America. This book discusses about a counterculture movement that slowly is embraced by the mainstream. Num Pages: 416 pages, Throughout. BIC Classification: 5S; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 203 x 33. Weight in Grams: 958.
Internationally-acclaimed graphic-literary talent Alison Bechdel offers acerbically funny insight into the lesbian culture of 1980s America in this comic strip collection.
Bechdel's brilliantly imagined counter-cultural band of friends - academics, social workers, booksellers - fall in and out of love, negotiate relationships, raise children, switch careers and cope with aging parents. The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For fuses high and low culture - from foreign domestic policy to domestic routine, postmodern theory to hot sex - in a serial graphic narrative 'suitable for all humanist persuasions'.
Alison Bechdel has been chronicling the lives of a small universe ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224087063
SKU
V9780224087063
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About Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times and People, among others. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise ... Read more
Reviews for The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for
So much more than a comic strip... No one comes close to Alison Bechdel
The Times
This compendium is testament to a unique literary-graphic talent
The Times
For 25 years Bechdel's path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip has been collected in award-winning volumes. Now, at last, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers ... Read more
The Times
This compendium is testament to a unique literary-graphic talent
The Times
For 25 years Bechdel's path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip has been collected in award-winning volumes. Now, at last, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers ... Read more