Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive,and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece.
Miraculously combining a perfect memory for both emotional and physical detail with the sometimes painful lucidity two and half decades’ distance have brought to her understanding of the events, Lust meticulously shows the who, where, when, and how (specifically, how an often penniless young girl can survive for months on the road) of a sometimes dangerous and sometimes exhilarating journey. Particularly haunting is her portrait of her fellow traveler, the gangly, promiscuous devil-may-care Edi who veers from being her spunky, funny best friend in the world to an out-of-control lunatic with no consideration for anything but her own whims and desires.
Universally considered one of the very finest examples of the new breed of graphic novels coming from Europe, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life won the 2011 Angouleme “Revelation” prize, and Fantagraphics is proud to bring it to English speaking readers.
0 有用 O痒痒z 2016-12-15 01:52:59
Less of a story arc. Considering it's an autobiography I guess it's understandable. Gets more interesting towards the last few chapters when the 2ndary characters start to reoccur.
0 有用 四十二颗樱桃 2022-05-10 20:00:26
一鼓作气的看完了,好看,简单的书。对意大利的印象更差了,我未来都应该不会再去意大利了。我心中最糟糕的国家。以及,对punk,亚文化年轻人祛魅了,当然之前就祛了,现在更是。
0 有用 四十二颗樱桃 2022-05-10 20:00:26
一鼓作气的看完了,好看,简单的书。对意大利的印象更差了,我未来都应该不会再去意大利了。我心中最糟糕的国家。以及,对punk,亚文化年轻人祛魅了,当然之前就祛了,现在更是。
0 有用 O痒痒z 2016-12-15 01:52:59
Less of a story arc. Considering it's an autobiography I guess it's understandable. Gets more interesting towards the last few chapters when the 2ndary characters start to reoccur.