{"product_id":"essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for","title":"Essential Dykes To Watch Out For","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Essential Dykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSettle 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friendsacademics, social workers, bookstore clerksfall in and out of love, negotiate friendships, raise children, switch careers, and cope with aging parents.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBechdel fuses high and low culturefrom foreign policy to domestic routine, hot sex to postmodern theoryin a serial graphic narrative 'suitable for humanists of all persuasions.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a second hand book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very good\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003ePublis\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003ehed: 2008\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublish\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eer: Mariner Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePages: 392\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780618968800\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alison Bechdel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56773083857227,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9780618968800.jpg?v=1773247871","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}