{"product_id":"the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for-von-alison-bechdel","title":"The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eFun Home\u003c\/em\u003e-the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For twenty-five years Bechdel's path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at last, \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Dykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/em\u003e gathers a \"rich, funny, deep and impossible to put down\" (Publishers Weekly) selection from all eleven Dykes volumes. Here too are sixty of the newest strips, never before published in book form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Settle in to this wittily illustrated soap opera (Bechdel calls it \"half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel\") of the lives, loves, and politics of a cast of characters, most of them lesbian, living in a midsize American city that may or may not be Minneapolis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Her brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friends-academics, social workers, bookstore clerks-fall in and out of love, negotiate friendships, raise children, switch careers, and cope with aging parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bechdel fuses high and low culture-from foreign policy to domestic routine, hot sex to postmodern theory-in a serial graphic narrative \"suitable for humanists of all persuasions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780618968800\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9780618968800","offer_id":51507574854,"sku":"9780618968800","price":23.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/27a0a588-4244-4c8e-9e75-bc7a0d413472.jpg?v=1781842028","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for-von-alison-bechdel","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}