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Description
Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.
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Publication
Touchstone (2013), Edition: Original, Paperback, 384 pages
Pages
384
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384 p.
Awards
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 2018)
NPR: Books We Love (2013)
The A.V. Club best books (2013)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Non-Fiction — 2013)
Media reviews
Brosh has an odd way of looking at the world and an uncanny ability to write about her personal — and specific — circumstances so that those of us who are even more odd can identify. ... Think of Brosh as a visceral, brutally honest David Sedaris — with badly drawn images — and buy this
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It would be easy to dismiss Brosh as unnecessarily self-deprecating. But it seems that it’s the sheer intensity of her critical self-consciousness and conscious self-criticalness that people have connected with so deeply. By revealing the selfish grotesqueness of everyday humanity, the stories
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encourage us to become more reflexive of our inherent flaws, which can be both productive and humbling. And also, it would be nothing short of ironic to criticise Brosh for her almost complete lack of subtlety when the premise of the book is embedded right there in the title: it’s all about hyperbole. Show Less
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PN2287.B6955 A3
Library's review
I've been reading Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half for a number of years now, so I was very excited when I heard she'd be making a book of it. I find Brosh's work equal parts absurd and profound. In one of her new pieces in the book, in which she finds a letter from her 10-year-old self to her
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25-year-old self, instructing the latter to "Please write back," and she does, which is novel and hilarious. Each story is a tiny snippet of her life, at some point or another. I find a lot of her stories incredibly relatable--particularly in terms of depression, and how one's own perception of one's identity works. It's brilliant. I'd estimate the book features at least 50% new material, which you won't find on the blog, and it's well worth the price and read. I couldn't put it down. Show Less
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1451666179 / 9781451666175