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Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel Paperback - 2014
by Anya Ulinich
Summary
A darkly funny graphic novel from the acclaimed author of Petropolis
Ulinich earned her literary stripes with her debut novel, Petropolis, and gained wide recognition for her textured characters” (BUST Magazine) and beautiful, far-ranging voice” (Gary Shteyngart). Ulinich’s long-awaited second work of fiction, the graphic novel Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel, evokes Louis C.K.’s sensibilities and Amy Winehouse’s longing and anguishoften in the same frameas Ulinich turns her sharp eye toward the strange, sometimes unmooring world of grown-up” dating. After fifteen years of marriage, thirty-seven-year-old Lena embarks on a string of online dates and receives a brutally eye-opening education in love, sex, and loss while raising her two teenage daughters. With references to Bernard Malamud and Chekhov along the way, this is a smart, funny story told beautifully through Ulinich’s text and drawings.
Ulinich earned her literary stripes with her debut novel, Petropolis, and gained wide recognition for her textured characters” (BUST Magazine) and beautiful, far-ranging voice” (Gary Shteyngart). Ulinich’s long-awaited second work of fiction, the graphic novel Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel, evokes Louis C.K.’s sensibilities and Amy Winehouse’s longing and anguishoften in the same frameas Ulinich turns her sharp eye toward the strange, sometimes unmooring world of grown-up” dating. After fifteen years of marriage, thirty-seven-year-old Lena embarks on a string of online dates and receives a brutally eye-opening education in love, sex, and loss while raising her two teenage daughters. With references to Bernard Malamud and Chekhov along the way, this is a smart, funny story told beautifully through Ulinich’s text and drawings.
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- Title Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel
- Author Anya Ulinich
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Fourt
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date 2014-07-29
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780143125242 / 0143125249
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 7.3 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 18.54 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Graphic novels, Comic books, strips, etc
- Dewey Decimal Code 741.5
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- Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/2014, Page 0
- New York Times Book Review, 08/17/2014, Page 30
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/07/2014, Page 26
- Publishers Weekly, 05/12/2014, Page 0
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