Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel Paperback - 2000
by Lynda Barry
Roberta Rohbeson begins her book in 1971, in what starts out as a drug-fueled teenage rant that gradually fades into the story of two cross-country trips she made with her father five years earlier -- a story she has kept to herself since she was found wandering the desert covered with blood. Illustrations.
First line
WHEN WE first moved here, the mother took the blue-mirror cross that hung over her bed in our old house and nailed a nail for it in the new bedroom of me and my sister.
From the rear cover
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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- Title Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel
- Author Lynda Barry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-10-10
- ISBN 9780684838465 / 068483846X
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.34 x 0.91 in (20.37 x 13.56 x 2.31 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Teenagers, Problem families
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 12/01/2000, Page 90
- New York Times, 10/22/2000, Page 36
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