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The cover to Chartwell Manor by Glenn Head, featuring the title in a jagged font above the author's name. In the background is an illustration of a red brick tower being struck by lightning. Surrounding the tower are various winged monsters, as well as the ghostly head of a man with glasses. Below, four teen boys smoke together, and a young man appears in a classroom. A blurb from Robert Crumb reads, "THis is—well, okay, I'll say it: A MASTERPIECE."
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Glenn Head

Chartwell Manor

On sale date: January 10, 2023

New in paperback: alternative cartoonist Glenn Head's harrowing graphic memoir is about years of sexual and emotional abuse suffered at a boarding school during his adolescence and the resultant trauma that took him almost 50 years to process before being able to tell his story publicly.

No one asks for the childhood they get, and no child ever deserves to go to Chartwell Manor. For Glenn Head, his two years spent at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding school — run by a serial sexual and emotional abuser of young boys in the early 1970s — left emotional scars in ways that he continues to process. This graphic memoir — a book almost 50 years in the making — tells the story of that experience and then delves with even greater detail into that experience’s reverberations in adulthood, including addiction and other self-destructive behavior. Head tells his story with unsparing honesty, depicting himself as a deeply flawed human struggling to make sense of his childhood. Now in paperback.

Praise

"Chartwell Manor is a raw and cathartic story about how to reckon with the past, and a powerful reminder that sexual assault can take years to understand, much less recover from." — Entertainment Weekly

"A harrowing and important graphic novel." — Hollywood Reporter

"Unflinchingly honest and hypnotically powerful, this is a standout entry on the shelf of the great graphic autobiographies." — Publishers Weekly

"This is a great graphic novel. I couldn't put it down... Starkly honest, a powerful story...the level of merciless self examination...I was deeply impressed. Head has traveled a long way to get to this point. ... A Masterpiece! It's good for the world..." — R. Crumb

Specs

Pages
244
Format
Paperback / Softback
Color
Black-and-white.
Dimensions
6.9" × 9.5"
ISBN-13
9781683966890
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