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Big Scoop of Ice Cream
"It's about life in our time, about being a young adult woman in the early twenty first century. Conxita, in her twenties, the latest representative of a whole generation, lost her heart somewhere between Madrid and Barcelona. A 'real spitfire' according to her mother, she faces everyday events with great courage. A former student of Fine Arts, she draws her every adventure, from her apartment that she shares with a girl who's her mirror image, her household, her computer, her dreams to elsewhere, her escapes to the beach, her telephone conversations with friends, to her more or less happy dates. In this autobiographical tale in seventeen short tableaux, Conxita Herrero shakes up preconceived ideas about the transition to adulthood. In a minimalist and rigorous style, she plays with antagonisms and mixes inertia and movement, silent panels and intimate, mysterious dialogues, bare lines and pure colors. Freeing herself from the "concern for truth" specific to the autobiography, the author sheds any sentimentality and provides her sets and her characters with sketchy features a strange and fascinating dimension oscillating between reality and dream"--
Monografía
monografia Rebiun38244706 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun38244706 m o d | cr cnu|||||||| 221012s2022 xx o ||||0 eng d 9781681122953 1681122952 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ 741.5/946 23/eng/20220928 Herrero, Conxita Big Scoop of Ice Cream 1st ed Chicago NBM Publishing 2022 Chicago Chicago NBM Publishing 2022 1 online resource (143 pages) 1 online resource (143 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cover -- Copyright -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Resolutions -- Ghosts -- The Bathroom -- Talking -- The Couch Cushion -- The Arrival of Spring -- Relating -- The South of California -- Enter -- The Metaphor -- Alghero -- The Castles -- The Pockets -- Looking Up -- The Game -- Big Scoop of Ice Cream -- The Reject -- People are Only Human -- Back Cover "It's about life in our time, about being a young adult woman in the early twenty first century. Conxita, in her twenties, the latest representative of a whole generation, lost her heart somewhere between Madrid and Barcelona. A 'real spitfire' according to her mother, she faces everyday events with great courage. A former student of Fine Arts, she draws her every adventure, from her apartment that she shares with a girl who's her mirror image, her household, her computer, her dreams to elsewhere, her escapes to the beach, her telephone conversations with friends, to her more or less happy dates. In this autobiographical tale in seventeen short tableaux, Conxita Herrero shakes up preconceived ideas about the transition to adulthood. In a minimalist and rigorous style, she plays with antagonisms and mixes inertia and movement, silent panels and intimate, mysterious dialogues, bare lines and pure colors. Freeing herself from the "concern for truth" specific to the autobiography, the author sheds any sentimentality and provides her sets and her characters with sketchy features a strange and fascinating dimension oscillating between reality and dream"-- Provided by publisher Text in English, translated from the French Life Young adults Autobiographical comics. Coming-of-age comics. Graphic novels. Herrero Delfa, Conxita 1-68112-294-4