Pretending Is Lying
  • Published: 25 October 2022
  • ISBN: 9781681376806
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $48.00
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Pretending Is Lying

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Now in paperback, a “tender, affecting” (NYTBR) memoir unlike any other, and the first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet.

Now in paperback, a “tender, affecting” (NYTBR) memoir unlike any other, and the first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet.

In a series of dazzling fragments—skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black-and-white—Dominique Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life: with her partner, Guy Marc; with her daughter, Nikita; and with her parents.

The result is an unnerving comedy of paternal dysfunction, an achingly ambivalent love story (with asides on Thomas Pynchon and the Beach Boys), and a searing account of childhood trauma—a dizzying, unforgettable view of a life in progress and a tour de force of the art of comics.
  • Published: 25 October 2022
  • ISBN: 9781681376806
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $48.00
Categories:

Praise for Pretending Is Lying

“It is a rare gift to come across a book as tender, affecting and complete as Pretending is Lying.” —Sheila Heti, The New York Times Book Review
 
“This beautifully rendered, emotionally intense, and chronologically scattered reminiscence essentially questions the veracity of all autobiography.” —Publishers Weekly