How I Tried To Be A Good Person - Softcover

Ulli Lust

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683962036 ISBN 13: 9781683962038

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 2019

Synopsis

the follow-up to the 2013 Surprise hit Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life.

How I Tried to Be a Good Person picks up directly where its predecessor left off, recounting an intense story of a utopian menage a trois that evolves into a love affair that becomes prossessive and violent. Revealing and powerful, Lust recounts her life as a young, enthusiastic anarchist making her way in Vienna in the 1990s - and of her love for two men: the 'perfect companion' Georg, an actor 20 years her elder, and the 'perfect lover', Kimata, a Nigerian man-about-town. As her relationships with the two men evolve, jealousy increasingly mounts and leads to emotional and violent outbreaks that threaten her life. How I Tried to Be a Good Person is a story of sexual obsession, gender conflict, and self-liberation – told with an unflinching honesty.

Ulli Lust's previous graphic memoir, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, was one of 2013's surprise hits, garnering an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel, the Angouleme Revelation Prize, as well as being nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Slate's Cartoonist Studio Prize, and being named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2013. The book was internationally lauded as a dense, sensitive, autobiographical masterpiece detailing one rebellious teenage summer spent hitchhiking across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily.

About this title

About the Author

Ulli Lust was born in 1967 in Vienna, Austria. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1683962036
• ISBN 13: 9781683962038
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368