{"description": "*\u201cYou\u2019ll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time.\u201d \u2014Lev Grossman, Time*\r\n\r\nInspired by a sixteenth-century Zen monk\u2019s painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long scroll, acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry confronts various demons from her life in seventeen full-color vignettes. In Barry\u2019s hand, demons are the life moments that haunt you, form you, and stay with you: your worst boyfriend; kickball games on a warm summer night; watching your baby brother dance; the smell of various houses in the neighborhood you grew up in; or the day you realize your childhood is long behind you and you are officially a teenager.\r\n\r\nAs a cartoonist, Lynda Barry has the innate ability to zero in on the essence of truth, a magical quality that has made her book One! Hundred! Demons! an enduring classic of the early twenty-first century. In the book\u2019s intro, however, Barry throws the idea of truth out of the window by asking the reader to decide if fiction can have truth and if autobiography can have a fiction, a hybrid that Barry coins \u201cautobiofictionalography.\u201d As readers get to know Barry\u2019s demons, they realize that the actual truth no longer matters because the universality of Barry\u2019s comics, true or untrue, reigns supreme.", "covers": [816913], "key": "/works/OL19526410W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL24752A"}}], "title": "One! Hundred! Demons!", "subjects": ["Pictorial American wit and humor", "Comic books, strips", "Graphic Novels", "Cartooning", "Memoir", "Graphic Diary", "Collage Novel", "Women Cartoonists", "Cartoonists", "Biography"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-04-03T23:55:28.871451"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-08-16T20:53:50.581164"}}