num_pages: 144
description: The first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet Pretending is Lying is a memoir unlike any other. In a series of dazzling fragments-skipping through time and from raw slashing color to delicate black and white-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.
language: English
title: Pretending Is Lying
publisher: New York Review Comics