Walking Distance - Couverture souple

Stewart, Lizzy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910395811 ISBN 13 : 9781910395813

Editeur : Avery Hill Publishing Limited, 2024

Synopsis

A hybrid prose and comics-format essay on the experience of being a woman out walking.

Merging the personal and the political, observation and contemplation, the author examines what her life is and wonders what it should be; what is expected of a thirty year old woman by society, by family and friends and by herself. She walks the streets of her London, creating it and herself-gaining agency by being in control of her own direction speed and momentum. Walking is both an internal and external experience. It's a time for self-reflection, for observing others and for imagining how we appear to them. What is expected of a person of our age, sex, and race, and how should that influence what we do and how we feel about ourselves?

A poignant and contemporary meditation on gender politics, social commentary, and eighties movies, all interlaced with shards of autobiography and illustrated with a beautiful series of sequential and non-sequential watercolour images.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lizzy Stewart is an author and illustrator from Plymouth who currently lives in London. She won a Waterstones Prize for her debut picture-book There's a Tiger in the Garden and has worked on numerous other books for children. For adults her work includes the short story collection It's Not What You Thought It Would Be, an acclaimed graphic novel Alison and Lights, Planets, People!, a collaboration with writer Molly Naylor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Avery Hill Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910395811
• ISBN 13: 9781910395813
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 56
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible