{"product_id":"9780544387652","title":"The Secret to Superhuman Strength","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author ofFun 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: ALISON BECHDEL's cult following for her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded wildly for her best-selling memoirs, Fun Home , adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and Are You My Mother? Her many honors include being named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont. Brief Description : \"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\"-- Review Quotes : \"Color? It's the first sign that something new is afoot in a book full of familiar flourishes [including] the figure of Bechdel herself, drawn as a bit of a cross between Tintin and Waldo, vibrating with anxiety, doing her best to flee herself on bike or skis or simply afoot....It's [an] accumulating ease we feel in this book--a supple, loose-limbed grace; an absence of fear that translates into simplicity, discipline and modesty.\" - New York Times \"Astonishing . . . utterly absorbing\" - The Atlantic \"[Bechdel] set out to write a light book about her lifelong commitment to exercise, including stints as a cyclist, climber, skier and yogi. As usual, her story and art are about so much more--the realities of aging, the quest for transcendence and the drumbeat of mortality.\" - Washington Post \"The book is certainly light and fun in parts, but like 2006's Fun Home and 2012's Are You My Mother?, the new work is a wonderland of literary allusions and introspection. The delight of reading an Alison Bechdel book is in watching the author make mind-blowing connections from seemingly disparate sources, and feeling like you're soul-searching right along with her . . . The Secret to Superhuman Strength . . . is a wondrous exploration of how an obsession with exercise--'the sweat, the endorphins, the gear, the togs, the next new thing!'--can be self-care and a means of connecting with the world at large.\" - Oprah Daily \"[Bechdel's] work is known for its unique style of combining incisive insight, humor, emotional resonance, queer ethos, and visually stunning illustration. She brings all of that to her new graphic memoir, The Secret to Superhuman Strength .\" - Shondaland Publisher Marketing :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2021-05-04\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46477315539075,"sku":"9780544387652","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9780544387652.jpg?v=1770289630","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/9780544387652","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}