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| Weight | 0.938 kg |
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| Dimensions | 26.2 × 19.6 × 2.6 cm |
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| Cover | Hardback |
| Pages | 231 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 613.7092 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
The Secret To Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel£16.99
Here is a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel’s lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times. Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s (‘Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!’) to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes through an ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other gear.
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**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 Telegraph
In 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.
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