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How I Tried to Be a Good Person
Current price:
$34.99
Publication Date: July 16th, 2019
Publisher:
Fantagraphics
ISBN:
9781683962038
Pages:
368
Description
This graphic memoir is about obsession, gender conflict, and self-liberation, told with an honesty few cartoonists are capable of.
Lust's follow-up to her first internationally lauded graphic memoir, How I Tried to Be a Good Person, picks up directly where its predecessor left off. Revealing and powerful, Lust recounts her life as a young, enthusiastic anarchist making her way in Vienna in the 1990s - and of her love for two men: the "perfect companion" Georg, an actor twenty years her elder, and the "perfect lover," Kimata, a Nigerian man-about-town. As her relationships with the two men evolve, jealousy increasingly mounts and leads to emotional and violent outbreaks that threaten her life.
Praise for How I Tried to Be a Good Person
An intimate and imaginative follow-up graphic memoir to Lust's Ignatz award–winning punk travelogue.
— Publishers Weekly
Lust’s energetic, searching book ... reveals the power of desire — and the pain when jealousy rears its head.
— The Guardian
Lust’s bluntly honest account grants us a look at a courageous but alarming life.
— Booklist
A wonderful testament to the power of auto-bio graphic memoir.
— Comics Grinder
Lust’s examination of a pivotal and formative period of her life leaves no stone unturned and stands out for its absolute emotional honesty. Brave, confident, and visually literate in the extreme, How I Tried establishes its author as a true master of the medium.
— Four Color Apocalypse
Lust is determined to live her truth, even occasionally putting herself in physical danger. At other times, she’s left contemplating the line between self-actualization and selfishness. Lust relates all this in an uncompromisingly frank manner, with anthropological detail. It’s a rich narrative.
— The Comics Journal
The very definition of a warts and all memoir, this is a complex and meaty read.
— Irish Examiner