Spent : a Comic Novel

Serrano, Beatriz

Life can't go on like this - can it? This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection.On the surface, Marisa's life looks enviable. She lives in a nice apartment in the heart of Madrid, her friendly neighbour and lover Pablo lives downstairs, and she's risen quickly through the ranks at a successful advertising agency.And yet Marisa h...

Duhnam, Lena

In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain.For the last decade, as she's spent countless hours in doctor's waiting rooms searching for diagnoses, treatments, and relief, ...

July, Miranda

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. Miranda July´s second novel confirms the brilliance of her ...

Feito, Virginia

"Sensationally unhinged" - SUNDAY TIMES"Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny" - CATRIONA WARD""Weird and wonderful" - LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIANWinifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She'll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the long...

Alice Oseman

harlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance.But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize,...

Roig, Montserrat

Spring, 1974. After twelve years abroad, Natàlia Miralpeix returns to Barcelona and her family. Change is in the air: revolution sexual, political and artistic is simmering. Franco may still be in power, but his death is only two years away. The younger generation write poetry, listen to Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, and talk of a freer future. The older generation, though, ca...

Bechdel, Alison

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, weight lifting - you name it, she´s tried it. "Oh, to be self-suffici...

Bechdel, Alison

La verdadera Biblia del cómic lésbico undergound. Una selección de las reivindicativas y divertidas viñetas que Alison Bechdel publicó en distinta prensa gay y lésbica de Estados Unidos desde los años 80 hasta 2008. CONSIDERADA UNA DE LAS 25 OBRAS MÁS INFLUYENTES DE LA LITERATURA QUEER DE POSGUERRA SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES A lo largo de más de tres décadas, el pionero Unas les...

Bechdel, Alison

Un relato tragicómico en formato de memorias de la vida de una familia americana. En 2006 Houghton Mifflin publicó sus memorias gráficas, Fun Home: Una tragicomedia familiar, el exitoso relato de maduración que se ha calificado como «proeza de retrato familiar» y un «raro y original ejemplo del porqué las novelas gráficas han ocupado la conversación sobre la Literatura American...

Bechdel, Alison

Vuelve Alison Bechdel con una novela gráfica coral en la que el capitalismo tardío, el poliamor, el cambio climático y la mismísima cotidianidad son también protagonistas «Drástica, sarcástica y fantástica».LA Times Un libro ocurrente y político que cuestiona la realidad mundial y la incertidumbre del mañana Los días de cierta historietista llamada Alison Bechdel transcurren,...

Bechdel, Alison

Alison Bedchel, autora del bestseller Fun Home, regresa a su exitosa saga familiar con las memorias de su madre, una historia familiar y sobrecogedora. Si has leído la primera novela gráfica de Alison Bechdel, Fun Home. Una familia tragicómica, puedes obviar este texto de contraportada para sumergirte inmediatamente en la lectura de uno de los libros del año. Si, por el contrar...

Bechdel, Alison

Tras nueve años de silencio, llega la obra de madurez de Alison Bechdel.Un libro emocionante y necesario. UNO DE LOS 100 LIBROS MÁS DESTACADOS DE 2021 SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES Y DE LOS MEJORES DE 2021 SEGÚN BABELIA, THE OBJECTIVE Y ESQUIRE «De lo mejor que se ha publicado: una obra maestra del género.»Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, Babelia Durante toda su vida, Alison Bechdel ha bu...