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The Secret to Superhuman Strength Hardcover Alison Bechdel

Description: From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting 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. But the more Bechdel tries to improve herself, the more her self appears to be the thing in her way. She turns for enlightenment to Eastern philosophers and literary figures, including Beat writer Jack Kerouac, whose search for self-transcendence in the great outdoors appears in moving conversation with the author’s own. This gifted artist and not-getting-any-younger exerciser comes to a soulful conclusion. The secret to superhuman strength lies not in six-pack abs, but in something much less clearly defined: facing her own non-transcendent but all-important interdependence with others.A heartrendingly comic chronicle for our times.

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Location: North Branch, Minnesota

End Time: 2024-03-06T14:22:33.000Z

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The Secret to Superhuman Strength Hardcover Alison Bechdel

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Publication Year: 2021

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Book Title: The Secret to Superhuman Strength Hardcover Alison Bechdel

Publication Name: HarperCollins Publishers

Special Attributes: EX-LIBRARY

Author: Bechdel, Alison

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Genre: Personal & Professional Development

Original Language: English

Topic: Memoir

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