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Pretending is lying / by Dominique Goblet ; translated by Sophie Yanow

By:

Goblet, Dominique

Contributor(s):

Yanow, Sophie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : New York Review Comics , 2016Description: 149 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781681370477

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Graphic novels

DDC classification:

GN GOB

LOC classification:

PN6790.B43 G627413 2016

Summary: Pretending Is Lying is a memoir unlike any other. The first book to appear in English by the Belgian artist Dominique Goblet, it is at once an intimate account of love and familial dysfunction and an audacious experiment in graphic storytelling. In a series of dazzling fragments - skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black and White - Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life: with her partner, Guy-Marc; with her daughter, Nikita; with her alcoholic, well-meaning father; and with her abusive mother. More than a decade in the making, the result is an unnerving comedy of paternal dysfunction, an achingly ambivalent love story (with asides on the Beach Boys), and a searing account of childhood trauma - a dizzying, unforgettable view of a life in progress and a tour de force of the art of comics.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Graphic novel /Novela Gráfica	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	GN GOB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		058412

Pretending Is Lying is a memoir unlike any other. The first book to appear in English by the Belgian artist Dominique Goblet, it is at once an intimate account of love and familial dysfunction and an audacious experiment in graphic storytelling. In a series of dazzling fragments - skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black and White - Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life: with her partner, Guy-Marc; with her daughter, Nikita; with her alcoholic, well-meaning father; and with her abusive mother. More than a decade in the making, the result is an unnerving comedy of paternal dysfunction, an achingly ambivalent love story (with asides on the Beach Boys), and a searing account of childhood trauma - a dizzying, unforgettable view of a life in progress and a tour de force of the art of comics.

Translated from the French to English.

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