My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Pantheon Graphic Novels)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 037542539X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Heatley now lives in Jackson Heights, NY, with his wife Rebecca Gopoian (an agnostic, Jewish-Armenian poet), and their two awesome children. Go easy on him. Heatley was confirmed at the age of 13 and stopped going to church the following year. A few years later, his family moved to Teaneck, NJ, where they became disenchanted with Catholicismand joined an Episcopal church which might have had the worse liturgical music in the country. This is his first book. Davi
Product DescriptionOne of the most promising young talents in cartooning makes his debut with a dazzling collection–part freakish dreamlife, part quirk-o-rama autobiography, all genius.Long a fixture in comics anthologies, David Heatley's deceptively crude, wickedly observant drawings have begun showing up on the New York Times op-ed pages and the cover of the New Yorker, introducing him to a vast new audience, Now, in My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (title courtesy of the Ramones song), we are treated to the full range of Heatley's remarkable, wildly unique voice and vision.My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down is Heatley's life story told in six different but connected narrative threads. "Black History" is an unflinchingly honest meditation on his own racism."Portrait of My Mom" and "Portrait of My Dad" are beautifully paced vignettes, skeweri
My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Pantheon Graphic Novels) book has been released since 2014-10-19. My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Pantheon Graphic Novels) are written by David Heatley and it has 128 of pages on paperback.
Armchair Interviews said It's about "the tough questions". This graphic autobiography is a collection of David Heatley's comics that are darkly and explicitly funny. He leaves very little to the imagination as he takes us through his sex life (and eventually his love life), his relationships, good and bad, with people of other races, and his relationship with his parents and family.As an autobiography, the book gives us rare insight into the feelings and experience of another human being. It doesn't hold anything back, and doesn't let us as readers, either. You might put. This book will surely make you laugh and think at the same time Urban Reader While reading My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down, I guarantee you will laugh outloud, and not necessarily at the author, but at your own circumstances. You will ask yourself, "how can anyone know what I am going through?" Another reviewer rated this as "self-entitled and whiny"--but that's exactly the author's point--to bring out the "pity-party" animal in all of us, expose it, and shed some light on it, in the end to bring us around to a more relaxed and self-aware view of who we are. Through humor and incredible d. "Interesting Read" according to Tim Lasiuta. Biographies can be so interesting, and they run the full gamut from tragic to comic and everywhere inbetween. They can either move you, or bore you with their incessant, seemingly irrelevant details.That's how I find "My Brain is Upside Down". He divides the book into five sections, sex, race, mom, dad, and kin. Given the subject matter, it is probably the best way for Mr Heatley to chronicle his life. Each of the movements in the book are blunt, and to the point. However, as truthful as they are, they do not nec