An edition of Cruddy (1999)

Cruddy

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An edition of Cruddy (1999)

Cruddy

an illustrated novel

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"Roberta Rohbeson, 1971. Her overblown, drug-induced teenage rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on a very cruddy mud road behind cruddy Black Cat Lumber" soon becomes a detailed account of another story. It is a story about which Roberta has kept silent for five years, until, under the influence of a pale hippie called the Turtle and a drug called Creeper, her tale giddily unspools..."--BOOK JACKET.

"Roberta Rohbeson, 1967. The world of Roberta, age eleven, is terrifyingly unbounded, a one-way cross-country road trip fueled by revenge and by greed, a violent, hallucinatory, sometimes funny, more often horrific year of killings, betrayals, arson, and a sinister set of butcher knives, each with its own name."--BOOK JACKET.

"Welcome to Cruddy, Lynda Barry's tale of the two intertwined narratives set five years - an eternity - apart, which form the backbone of Roberta's life. Cruddy is a wild ride indeed, a fairy tale - cum - low-budget horror movie populated by a cast of characters that will remain vivid in the reader's mind long after the final page."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
305

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Cover of: Cruddy
Cruddy: A Novel
September 7, 1999, Simon & Schuster
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Cruddy
Cruddy: an illustrated novel
1999, Simon & Schuster
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3552.A7423 C78 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
305 p. :
Number of pages
305

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL38343M
Internet Archive
cruddyillustrate00barr
ISBN 10
0684829746
LCCN
99026418
OCLC/WorldCat
41118851
Library Thing
27018
Goodreads
1182947

Work Description

Fiction, Graphic Novel:
A psycho-killer's daughter narrates her gory youth. Disguised as a boy she accompanies her father on his murderous jobs, during which she pretends to be a mute so as not to give away her voice. One of the more memorable tasks is disposing of dead mobsters in a slaughterhouse.

On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping acid, a sixteen-year-old curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom and begins to write.
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.

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