Bücher von Alison Bechdel

**A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER AND FINANCIAL TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK****A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021**From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun Home comes this Christmas's must-gift graphic novel.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, weightlifting - you name it, she's tried it. "Oh, to be self-sufficient! Hard as a rock! An island!"But as she gets older, her body isn't getting any stronger. And in a changing, sometimes overwhelming world, are "cantaloupe-sized guns" all a person needs? Maybe the all-important secret is not where she expected to find it . . .'The Secret to Superhuman Strength practically glows with a beguiling mixture of intellect, warmth and humour' Daily TelegraphIn this, her third graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel has written a deeply layered, personal story about selfhood, self-sabotage, mortality, addiction, bliss, wonder, and the concerns of a generation. This is an extraordinary, laugh-out-loud chronicle of the conundrums we all grapple with as we seek our true place in the world. Truly, a must-gift book this Christmas.

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Winner of the Stonewall Book Award •  Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award • Nominated for the GLAAD Media AwardAlison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.  Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.   In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.

Alison Bechdel, die Königin der Graphic Novel, schenkt uns erneut ein Meisterwerk, das unfassbar komisch, extrem klug und dazu richtiggehend süchtigmachend ist.  Ihr ganzes Leben lang ist Alison Bechdel einem schwer fassbaren Mysterium auf der Spur, dem Mysterium der übermenschlichen Kraft. Sie hat in ihren Lieblingsbüchern danach gesucht, im Leben ihrer Held*innen, im Zölibat, in der Polyamorie, im Aktivismus, in der Therapie und vor allem in ihrer lebenslangen Leidenschaft für Sport. Skifahren, Laufen, Karate, Radfahren, Yoga, Gewichtheben - sie hat alles ausprobiert. In diesem Buch zeichnet Alison Bechdel eine vielschichtige und sehr persönliche Geschichte über das Selbst, über Selbstsabotage, Sterblichkeit, Sucht, Glückseligkeit und die Sorgen einer ganzen Generation.  »Dies ist eins der Highlights dieses Jahres.« Bookseller