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Cruddy : An Illustrated Novel Paperback - 2000
by Lynda Barry
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
Roberta Rohbeson begins her book in 1971, in what starts out as a drug-fueled teenage rant that gradually fades into the story of two cross-country trips she made with her father five years earlier -- a story she has kept to herself since she was found wandering the desert covered with blood. Illustrations.
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Details
- Title Cruddy : An Illustrated Novel
- Author Lynda Barry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2000
- Bookseller's Inventory # G068483846XI5N10
- ISBN 9780684838465 / 068483846X
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.34 x 0.91 in (20.37 x 13.56 x 2.31 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Teenagers, Problem families
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
First line
From the rear cover
Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood.
The girl is Roberta Rohbeson, and her rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on a very cruddy mud road" soon becomes a detailed account of another story, one that she has kept silent since she was eleven.
Darkly funny and resonant with humanity, Cruddy masterfully intertwines Roberta's stories -- part Easy Rider and part bipolar Wizard of Oz. These stories, the backbone of Roberta's short life, include a one-way trip across America fueled by revenge and greed and a vivid cast of characters, starring Roberta's dangerous father, the owners of the Knocking Hammer Bar -- cum-slaughterhouse, and runaway adolescents. With a teenager's eye for freakish detail and a nervous ability to make the most horrible scenes seem hilarious, Cruddy is a stunning achievement.
Media reviews
Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 12/01/2000, Page 90
- New York Times, 10/22/2000, Page 36