One Hundred Demons (Alex Awards)

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Summary: Beautiful book. You must read this book.
Review: Where did Lynda Barry come from?!!? Her early cartoons were great, sometimes inspired. Then came The Good Times are Killing Me and Cruddy, two extraordinary novels. With One Hundred Demons, Lynda Barry seems to have grown into a new level of inspired storytelling that ignores conventional boundaries and establishes its own self-contained universe of emotion and thought, image and word. As a result, this is great art -- not fiction, not autobiography, not painting -- this is GREAT ART that reaches inside you and messes with you on many levels. Mundane details illuminate huge ideas and cultural archetypes. Forget the details -- just get it and read it.