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Description - Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich

Anya Ulinich's long-awaited second work of fiction, the graphic novel Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel, evokes Louis CK's sensibility and Amy Winehouse's longing and anguish--often in the same frame--as Ulinich turns her sharp eye toward the strange, sometimes unmooring world of "grown up" dating. After fifteen years of marriage, thirty-seven-year-old Lena embarks on a string of online dates and receives a brutally eye-opening education in love, sex, and loss while raising her two teenage daughters. With references to Bernard Malamud and Chekhov along the way, this is a smart, funny story, told beautifully through Ulinich's text and drawings.

*ANew York TimesNotable Book*

"Funny, painful, outrageous . . . Anya Ulinich is the David Sedaris of Russian-American cartoonists."
-Gary Shteyngart

Anya Ulinich turns her sharp eye toward the strange, often unmooring world of "grown-up" dating in this darkly comic graphic novel. After her fifteen-year marriage ends, Lena Finkle gets an eye-opening education in love, sex, and loss when she embarks on a string of online dates, all while raising her two teenage daughters. The Vampire of Bensonhurst, the Orphan, Disaster Man, and the Diamond Psychiatrist are just a few of the unforgettable characters she meets along the way. Evoking Louis C. K.'s humor and Amy Winehouse's longing and anguish, and paying homage to Malamud and Chekhov, Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel is a funny and moving story, beautifully told.

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Petropolis
Paperback , Mar '08
RRP: $55.16 $49.64