{"product_id":"the-essential-dykes-to-watch-alison-bechdel-9780618968800","title":"The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for","description":"From the author of \u003cem\u003eFun Home\u003c\/em\u003e--the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For twenty-five years Bechdel's path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at last, \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Dykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/em\u003e gathers a \"rich, funny, deep and impossible to put down\" (Publishers Weekly) selection from all eleven Dykes volumes. Here too are sixty of the newest strips, never before published in book form. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Settle in to this wittily illustrated soap opera (Bechdel calls it \"half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel\") of the lives, loves, and politics of a cast of characters, most of them lesbian, living in a midsize American city that may or may not be Minneapolis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friends--academics, social workers, bookstore clerks--fall in and out of love, negotiate friendships, raise children, switch careers, and cope with aging parents. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bechdel fuses high and low culture--from foreign policy to domestic routine, hot sex to postmodern theory--in a serial graphic narrative \"suitable for humanists of all persuasions.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Bechdel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0618968806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780618968800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 8.16w x 1.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Triangle Awards - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2008 pg. 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/17\/2008 pg. 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/07\/2008 pg. 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Annex\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/08\/2009","brand":"Alison Bechdel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44050270257407,"sku":"9780618968800","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d361277d-6eab-40ad-b035-fda1df7add56.jpg?v=1685006240","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-essential-dykes-to-watch-alison-bechdel-9780618968800","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}