Walking Distance
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Avery Hill Publishing Limited
Published:9th Apr '24
Should be back in stock very soon
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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.
"An introspective, intriguing graphic novel that takes walking as a simple thing but crafts a memoir that’s both deeply personal and yet wonderfully universal. A gloriously wonderful book." - Richard Bruton, Comicon.com
"Walking Distance depicts the contours of an internal landscape, and the comics page becomes the space through which we can journey with an introspective protagonist.” - The Comics Journal
ISBN: 9781910395813
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
56 pages