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The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Revised Edition: An Account in Words and Pictures

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First released in 2002, this provocative, critically acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture starring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, and Alexander Skarsgård.
 
“I don’t remember that being born. I used to be a very ugly child. My appearance has not improved so I guess it was once a lucky break when he was once attracted by my youthfulness.” So begins the wrenching diary of Minnie Goetze, a fifteen-year-old girl longing for love and acceptance and struggling with her own precocious sexuality. After losing her virginity to her mother’s boyfriend, Minnie pursues a string of sexual encounters (with both boys and girls) At the same time as experimenting with drugs and developing her talents as an artist. Unsupervised and unguided by her aloof and narcissistic mother, Minnie plunges into a defenseless, yet fearless adolescence.
 
At the same time as set in the libertine atmosphere of 1970s San Francisco, Minnie’s journey to take note herself and her world is universal: this is the story of a young woman troubled by the discontinuity between what she thinks and feels and what she observes in those around her. Acclaimed cartoonist and creator Phoebe Gloeckner serves up a deft blend of visual and verbal narrative in her complex presentation of a pivotal year in a girl’s life, recounted in diary pages and illustrations, with full narrative sequences in comics form. The Diary of a Teenage Girl offers a searing comment on adult society as seen though the eyes of a young woman on the verge of joining it.
 
This edition has been up to date by the creator with an introduction reflecting on the book’s critical reception and value as diary or novel, historical document or work of art. Also included in this revised edition are supplementary photographs and illustrations from the creator’s childhood, including some of her own diary entries.

“Phoebe Gloeckner… is creating one of the most edgiest work about young women’s lives in any medium.”—The New York Times
 
“One of the brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up female in The usa.”—Salon
 
“It’s the most honest depiction of sexuality in a long, long time; as a meditation on adolescence, it picks up a literary ball that’s been only fitfully carried after Salinger.”—Nerve.com

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