| The Good Times Are Killing Me Contributor(s): Barry, Lynda (Author) |
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ISBN: 1770462619 ISBN-13: 9781770462618 Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2017479849 |
| Lexile Measure: 1190 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 7.3" (0.90 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lynda Barry's classic heartbreaking and heartwarming coming of age novella back in print Young Edna Arkins lives in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing, thanks to white flight from urban Seattle in the late 1960s. As the world changes around her, Edna is exposed to the callous racism of adults--sometimes subtle and other times blatant, but always stinging. By weaving the importance of music in adolescence with the forbidden friendship between Edna, who is white, and Bonna Willis, who is Black, Lynda Barry captures the earnest, awkward, yet always honest adolescent voice as perfectly in prose as she does in comics. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barry, Lynda: - Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher. She is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, and author of The Freddie Stories, One! Hundred! Demons!, The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies!, and The Good Times are Killing Me, which was adapted as an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor's Award. Barry has written three bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels for D+Q: the Eisner Award-winning What It Is, and Picture This, and Syllabus Notes from an accidental professor. |