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How I Tried to Be a Good Person
Critic Reviews
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Based on 7 reviews on
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
- Publish Date: Jul 16th, 2019
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.40in - 6.70in - 1.10in - 2.00lb
- EAN: 9781683962038
- Categories: • Literary• Artists, Architects, Photographers• Special Interest - Literary
About the Author
Lust, Ulli: - Ulli Lust, born in Vienna in 1967, is an award-winning comic artist and illustrator. Her graphic memoir Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life received international attention and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Ignatz Award. Her subsequent works include How I Tried to Be a Good Person and Voices in the Dark. She teaches drawing and comics at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
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"