The Story
PHYSICAL EDUCATION TP (MR)
(W) JOANA MOSI (A) JOANA MOSI (C) JOANA MOSI
POW POW PRESS
StockID: 174565 SKU: 0326PW0974
A portrait of creative stagnation- digital saturation- and the strange- sideways momentum of post-modern life. Laura has just received a prestigious grant to write her debut novel- and everyone around her agrees that things seem to finally be falling into place for her. Instead- she finds herself increasingly numb and detached from reality—half-heartedly meeting up with friends at the gym- struggling to fulfil her role as a daughter- and managing an abstract relationship with a married man. Haunted by lingering memories of a toxic youth she can’t escape- Laura is stuck in a strange limbo- unable to draw a cohesive plot for her life- her hopes- or her future. Wry- elliptical- and intimate- Physical Education perfectly captures the quiet absurdities of the algorithmic age and the familiar ways in which we scroll- strive- sweat- and stall our way through the world. A smart- emotionally resonant work for readers of Jillian Tamaki’s Boundless and The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis. The first-ever graphic novel to be a National Illustration Award of Portugal Highlight Book!
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION TP (MR)
(W) JOANA MOSI (A) JOANA MOSI (C) JOANA MOSI
POW POW PRESS
StockID: 174565 SKU: 0326PW0974
A portrait of creative stagnation- digital saturation- and the strange- sideways momentum of post-modern life. Laura has just received a prestigious grant to write her debut novel- and everyone around her agrees that things seem to finally be falling into place for her. Instead- she finds herself increasingly numb and detached from reality—half-heartedly meeting up with friends at the gym- struggling to fulfil her role as a daughter- and managing an abstract relationship with a married man. Haunted by lingering memories of a toxic youth she can’t escape- Laura is stuck in a strange limbo- unable to draw a cohesive plot for her life- her hopes- or her future. Wry- elliptical- and intimate- Physical Education perfectly captures the quiet absurdities of the algorithmic age and the familiar ways in which we scroll- strive- sweat- and stall our way through the world. A smart- emotionally resonant work for readers of Jillian Tamaki’s Boundless and The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis. The first-ever graphic novel to be a National Illustration Award of Portugal Highlight Book!
