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The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures is a diaristic graphic novel by author and artist Phoebe Gloeckner. It is notable for it's hybrid form, composed of both prose and "comics" passages, each contributing to the propulsion of the narrative.[1]

First published in 2002, the book has been called "autobiography" or "semi-autobiography."[2]

The story is told by its protagonist Minnie Goetze, a 15-year-old girl living in San Francisco, CA. The year is 1976, and Minnie, the daughter of a young single mother, loses her virginity to her mother's boyfriend, and soon thereafter begins writing obsessively in her diary. As she careens towards coming of-age, she searches for love but confounds it with sex. The book presents a complex and jarring look into the interior life of an adolescent girl, and has been described as raw and disturbing, not only because of its subject matter, but because of Minnie's frank and precociously intelligent point of view and commentary on the lives of the adults in her midst.

Whitney Joiner of Salon.com wrote, "(The Diary of a Teenage Girl) is one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America.”[3] Michael Martin of nerve.com described the book as “the most honest depiction of sexuality in a long, long time; as a meditation on adolescence, it picks up a literary ball that’s been only fitfully carried after Salinger.”[4] Comedian and Author Rob Delaney said, "There are no better memoirs than Phoebe Gloeckner’s A Child’s Life (her first book) [and] Diary Of A Teenage Girl".[5] Peggy Orenstein wrote in a New York Times magazine profile on Gloeckner that she "is creating some of the edgiest work about young women's lives in any medium"[6]. In 2014, The Diary of a Teenage Girl was named one of the "best 50 non-super-hero graphic novels" by Rolling Stone Magazine.[7]

The book has had broad creative influence. Director Marielle Heller adapted the book for both the stage and the screen (2010 and 2015, respectively). The eponymous film The Diary of a Teenage Girl, starring Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, and Kristin Wiig, was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for distribution and will be broadly released August 7, 2015.

A revised edition of the book, including a preface by comics scholar Hillary Chute, a foreword by the author, and a selection of the author's personal photos and original diary pages, will be released by North Atlantic Books in late July 2015.[8]

References

  1. ^ Rosenberg, Meisha (2007). "Multi-modality in Phoebe Gloeckner's The Diary of a Teenage Girl". International Journal of Comic Art. 2 (9): 396–412. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ^ Groth, Gary. "The Phoebe Gloeckner Interview". The Comics Journal. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  3. ^ Joiner, Whitney. "Not Your Mother's Comic Book". salon.com. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  4. ^ Martin, Michael. "The Nerve Interview: Phoebe Gloeckner". Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  5. ^ Ryan, Kyle. "Rob Delaney Explains Why Phoebe Gloeckner's A Child's Life is The North Star". A.V.Club. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  6. ^ Orenstein, Peggy. "hoebe Gloeckner Is Creating Stories About the Dark Side of Growing Up Female". New York Times. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  7. ^ "Drawn Out: The 50 Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  8. ^ Phail, Evan. "With New Film, 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' Gets New Edition". Publisher's Weekly. Retrieved 8 July 2015.


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