Pretending is Lying

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Call Number: Adult Graphic Novel / Goblet, Dominique, Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / Biography / Goblet, Dominique
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Goblet, Dominique	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / Biography / Goblet, Dominique	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Publication date from publishers website.
Translated from the French.
"Pretending Is Lying is a memoir unlike any other. The first book to appear in English by the acclaimed 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Powerful art depicting dysfunctional family submitted by aprille on August 11, 2018, 4:23pm An autobiographical graphic novel. The main character's relationships with her lover, her father, her mother and her daughter are depicted in masterful drawings. In particular, her rather florid alcoholic father is powerfully rendered. I was somewhat terrified by him (as I think she was).