MARISA ACOCELLA MARCHETTO

¿Qué sucede cuando una mujer descubre que tiene cáncer y emprende una lucha contra la enfermedad? Este título no sólo presenta una historia vitalista narrada por una superviviente, sino también algo más: las experiencias de una mujer con una vida sobrecargada y una hermosa historia de amor. Cancer Vixen es el relato real de cómo la autora abordó su lucha contra el cáncer, en formato de novela gráfica.

From the celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and acclaimed author of Cancer Vixen, a brilliant, funny, and wildly imaginative first novel: the story of an influential gossip columnist brought face-to-face with her higher selfand a challenge to change her life for the better.Glamorous, superconnected Ann Tenna is the founder of Eyemauler, a New York City-based Web site thats always the first to dish the most up-to-the-minute dirt on celebrities and ordinary folks alike. Ann has ascended to the zenith of the New York media scene, attended by groups of grovelers all too willing to be trampled on by her six-inch Giuseppe Zanottis if it means better seats at the table.But as high as her success has taken her, Ann has actually fallen farvery farfrom her true self. It takes a near-fatal freak accident on her birthdayApril Fools Dayand an intervention from her cosmic double in a realm beyond our own to make Ann realize the full cost of the humanity she has lost.Told with laugh-out-loud humor, spot-on dialogue (including via cameo appearances from Coco Chanel, Gianni Versace, and Jimi Hendrix, to name just a few), and stunning, full-color artwork, Ann Tenna is a timely, necessary tale for our overly media-cated times: the newest, much-anticipated adventure from a supremely gifted artist at the height of her powers.

From the celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and acclaimed author of Cancer Vixen, a brilliant, funny, and wildly imaginative first novel: the story of an influential gossip columnist brought face-to-face with her higher selfand a challenge to change her life for the better. Glamorous, superconnected Ann Tenna is the founder of Eyemauler, a New York City-based Web site thats always the first to dish the most up-to-the-minute dirt on celebrities and ordinary folks alike. Ann has ascended to the zenith of the New York media scene, attended by groups of grovelers all too willing to be trampled on by her six-inch Giuseppe Zanottis if it means better seats at the table. But as high as her success has taken her, Ann has actually fallen farvery farfrom her true self. It takes a near-fatal freak accident on her birthdayApril Fools Dayand an intervention from her cosmic double in a realm beyond our own to make Ann realize the full cost of the humanity she has lost. Told with laugh-out-loud humor, spot-on dialogue (including via cameo appearances from Coco Chanel, Gianni Versace, and Jimi Hendrix, to name just a few), and stunning, full-color artwork, Ann Tenna is a timely, necessary tale for our overly media-cated times: the newest, much-anticipated adventure from a supremely gifted artist at the height of her powers.

The groundbreaking graphic memoir that inspires breast cancer patients to fight backand do so with style. Powerful A vibrant, neon chronicle with plenty of attitude A triumph of imagination and spirit. Los Angeles TimesWhat happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds ... a lump in her breast? Thats the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant graphic memoir in motion. In vivid color and with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancerfrom diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between.