One ! Hundred ! Demons !
Author(s): Lynda Barry
"You�ll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time." �Lev Grossman, TimeInspired by a sixteenth-century Zen monk�s painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long scroll, acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry confronts various demons from her life in seventeen full-color vignettes. In Barry�s hand, demons are the life moments that haunt you, form you, and stay with you: your worst boyfriend; kickball games on a warm summer night; watching your baby brother dance; the smell of various houses in the neighborhood you grew up in; or the day you realize your childhood is long behind you and you are officially a teenager.
As a cartoonist, Lynda Barry has the innate ability to zero in on the essence of truth, a magical quality that has made her book One! Hundred! Demons! an enduring classic of the early twenty-first century. In the book�s intro, however, Barry throws the idea of truth out of the window by asking the reader to decide if fiction can have truth and if autobiography can have a fiction, a hybrid that Barry coins " autobiofictionalography. " As readers get to know Barry�s demons, they realize that the actual truth no longer matters because the universality of Barry�s comics, true or untrue, reigns supreme.
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General Fields
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- : Drawn & Quarterly Publications
- : Drawn & Quarterly Publications
- : 0.76
- : 18 April 2017
- : 1.06 Inches X 9.8 Inches X 6.1 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lynda Barry
- : Hardback
- : English
- : 741.5/973
- : 224