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From the celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and acclaimed author of Cancer Vixen, a brilliant, funny, and wildly imaginative first novel: the story of an influential gossip columnist brought face-to-face with her higher self - and a challenge to change her life for the better. Glamorous, superconnected Ann Tenna is the founder of Eyemauler, a New York City-based Web site thats always the first to dish the most up-to-the-minute dirt on celebrities and ordinary folks alike. Ann has ascended to the zenith of the New York media scene, attended by groups of grovelers all too willing to be trampled on by her six-inch Giuseppe Zanottis if it means better seats at the table. But as high as her success has taken her, Ann has actually fallen far - very far - from her true self. It takes a near-fatal freak accident on her birthday - April Fools Day - and an intervention from her cosmic double in a realm beyond our own to make Ann realize the full cost of the humanity she has lost. Told with laugh-out-loud humor, spot-on dialogue (including via cameo appearances from Coco Chanel, Gianni Versace, and Jimi Hendrix, to name just a few) , and stunning, full-color artwork, Ann Tenna is a timely, necessary tale for our overly "media-cated" times: the newest, much-anticipated adventure from a supremely gifted artist at the height of her powers.
About the Author
The Big She-Bang is the latest graphic novel from Marisa Acocella Marchetto. She is the author of The New York Times best-selling graphic novel Ann Tenna, the graphic memoir Cancer Vixen, and Just Who the Hell is She, Anyway? Marchetto is also a cartoonist for The New Yorker, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She is also the founder of the Marisa Acocella Marchetto Foundation which funds free integrative therapies and cold caps (which prevent hair loss from chemotherapy) at the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center, where the Foundation also supports a complete empowerment program that includes yoga, Chi Qong, journaling, exercise, meditation, sound therapy, and nutrition. The Foundation's mission: No breast left behind.
