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Title	:	A Child's Life: Other Stories
Author	:	Phoebe Gloeckner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 152 pages
Published	:	July 25th 2000 by Frog Books (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Autobiography. Memoir. Comix. Nonfiction

A Child's Life: Other Stories Paperback | Pages: 152 pages

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Phoebe Gloeckner's first book collects her highly praised autobiographical accounts of a teenage girl's loss of innocence through sex, drugs, rape, and AIDS. This edition includes eight pages of new material.

Long respected as one of the finest and most original of today's underground comics artists, Gloeckner shows both technical artistry and tremendous range—from her sly, lurid, and brilliantly colored posters for rock groups to her textbook-quality medical illustrations; from her sharp naturalistic juxtapositions for The Atrocity Exhibition (J.G. Ballard) to the signature comics for which she is best known.

Pages include both black and white and color comics, some that were published before in obscure comic books, and some of her classics in addition to new stories. In detailed, nuanced panels, these strips depict the isolation, horror, and disappointment—but also the revolutionary, transformative power—of young women trapped in circumstances ringed with drugs and sexual abuse. Gloeckner continues as a major literary and visual artist.

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Original Title:	A Child's Life and Other Stories
ISBN:	1583940286 (ISBN13: 9781583940280)
Edition Language:	English

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This is probably the most fucked up book I'll have ever read in my life. This is also probably the most evocative and personally affective art piece I'll ever seen, read, held or otherwise observed in my life. This collection of work is nothing short of a masterpiece. At 150 primarily illustrated pages, you could get through this book in one sitting, but the emotional impact of what you're consuming, rendered beautifully in graphic detail, blooms as if it's a bruise and I found it best to let

This book, while artistically incredibly powerful, is also a difficult book to read, in that its images are quite graphic in nature, and involve themes related to children and sexuality which was difficult for me to see. I respect Gloekner's artistry and her storytelling prowess, but was disturbed by the content of this book because of my own sensitivities.

Whoa. I think this is the most disturbing thing I've ever read, and it's hard to imagine really recommending it to anybody, even though it's brilliant. It's just brutal. Abuse, sexuality in a place- determined by age, class, and gender- where consent is a total grey area (e.g.: not really available), just kind of going along with the drugs everybody's doing- it's intense. Like beats the shit out of Chuck Palahniuk or Dennis Cooper without even trying intense. She's also a phenomenal visual

This book was utterly horrifying, but I mean that in the best way? Very, very uncomfortable subject material, rendered beautifully

This book is not for the faint of heart. It has graphic depictions of rape, drug abuse, and child abuse. I kept thinking about how difficult it must have been for her to draw this, and at the same time, how therapeutic. Like other books I like, the author's ability to be vulnerable, show raw emotion, no holds barred, drew me in and kept my heart hurting for her all the way through. It's a beautiful and sad book to read, but it's strength lies in the honesty and brutality of the author and her

An absolutely heart-breaking piece of art. This autobiographically-inspired collection of graphics tells of girls' struggles with sex, drugs, and abuse. The stories disturbed me to the core and the drawings were phenomenal. Worth the time to read the words and pictures but definitely for mature readers.

What a raw and brutally honest look at someone's life. Phoebe Gloeckner does not hold back from depicting all of the disturbing and painful experiences she's survived, and it's remarkable to read this account in words and pictures. I read "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" right before picking this one up, and I feel like I got more of the complete story behind several of her traumatic experiences.I do not recommend this book if you are sensitive to content about abuse, sex, and drugs. If you can