Search results for ""Author Luke Healy""
Nobrow Ltd Americana (And the Act of Getting Over It.)
The Pacific Crest Trail runs 2660 miles, from California's border with Mexico to Washington's border with Canada. To walk it is to undertake a grueling test of body and spirit... challenge accepted. This intimate, engaging autobiographical work recounts the author's own attempt to walk the length of the USA's west coast. Healy's life-changing journey weaves in and out of reflections on his experiences in America and his development as an artist, navigating both the trail itself and the unique culture of the people who attempt to complete it.
£15.29
Drawn & Quarterly The Con Artists
£20.35
Nobrow Ltd How to Survive in the North
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2016, available in paperback for the first time! With stunning narrative skill, this compelling graphic novel intricately weaves together true-life narratives from 1912 and 1926 and a fictional story set in the present day. How To Survive in the North is an unforgettable journey of love and loss that shows the strength it takes to survive in even the harshest conditions.
£11.69
Faber & Faber The Con Artists
THE OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTH, 'a beautifully observed masterpiece''I loved it- it's quiet and funny and anxious, most of all it's dreadfully human. Really great.' EVIE WYLD'Joy, terror, good jokes, bad decisions, mystery moustaches - this book has them all, and more!' JOFF WINTERHART'It is amazing. Really just perfect comic writing, in both senses.' STEPHEN COLLINSLove, friendship, fraud and the stories we tell...Frank only wanted three things this year- to perform stand-up comedy, go to therapy, and to keep his house plants alive.Then Giorgio got hit by a bus.As Frank moves in with Giorgio to help him recover, he begins to suspect that the perfect life Giorgio has been sharing online may be nothing more than a web of lies and scams. Finding himself unable to break free from his friend's complicated life, has Frank become Giorgio's unwitting accomplice?
£15.29
Faber & Faber SelfEsteem and the End of the World
''Hilarious ... there''s no one else quite like him working today.'' RACHEL COOKE, Observer Graphic Novel of the month''Full of unexpected laughs; at once both absurd and sincere.'' SOPHIE YANOW, author of The Contradictions''A joy to read.''RAFEL FRUMKIN, author of ConfidenceThe funniest, most moving and expansive graphic novel yet from the acclaimed author of The Con Artists and Americana.Who is Luke Healy?'For over ten years, a graphic novelist called Luke Healy has invested all of his self-esteem into his career. Then, almost overnight, just as his brother is getting married, both seem to vanish.Spiralling and lacking purpose, he searches for identity in self-help books, replacement jobs and human connection and visits cheesy British hotels and abandoned Greek islands.Set against the backdrop of a dangerously changing global climate,
£18.00
Avery Hill Publishing Limited Permanent Press
Luke is depressed, afflicted by a severe case of metaphoritis and deadlines that don't really exist. Afraid of being forgotten by the comics community and unable to find motivation in anything besides jealousy, he sets out to create an award-winning comic that will remedy all of his problems. Exploring themes of art and existence through worlds of theater, youtube videos, relationships between family and neighbors, and numbers both real and imagined, Luke Healy's new graphic novel tells a story of creative perserverance and exhaustion.
£10.99
