The Secret To Superhuman Strength Signed Edition Hardback
by Alison Bechdel
Illustrated by Alison Bechdel
Hardback
Description
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.
A heartrendingly comic chronicle for our times.
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins
- Publication Date:04/05/2021
- ISBN:9780358554844
Information
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins
- Publication Date:04/05/2021
- ISBN:9780358554844
