Jane, el zorro & yo / Jane, the Fox and Me by Isabelle Arsenault

Jane, el zorro & yo / Jane, the Fox and Me by Isabelle Arsenault

Una conmovedora novela gr fica en la que se abordan temas como el paso de la infancia a la edad adulta, el acoso escolar, los problemas derivados de la baja autoestima y la capacidad del arte en general y la literatura en particular para convertirse en tablas de salvaci n.

Montreal, finales de los a os ochenta del siglo pasado. H l ne es una muchacha de doce a os que inexplicablemente ha sido dejada de lado por sus antiguas amigas, que ahora se divierten humill ndola en p blico. El d a a d a de la protagonista es un infierno y su autoestima se resiente hasta el punto de que llega a asumir como ciertos los insultos recibidos.

No quiere recurrir a la ayuda y comprensi n de su madre, porque la vida de esta no es mucho mejor: siempre al borde del colapso por agotamiento, mantiene ella sola a H l ne y sus dos hermanos. El nico consuelo de H l ne es la lectura de Jane Eyre, la novela de Charlotte Bront , con cuya desgraciada protagonista se siente identificada.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

H l ne has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies -- H l ne weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, H l ne has one consolation, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. H l ne identifies strongly with Jane's tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this wonderful book, she is able to ignore her tormentors. But when H l ne is humiliated on a class trip in front of her entire grade, she needs more than a fictional character to allow her to see herself as a person deserving of laughter and friendship.

Leaving the outcasts' tent one night, H l ne encounters a fox, a beautiful creature with whom she shares a moment of connection. But when Suzanne Lipsky frightens the fox away, insisting that it must be rabid, H l ne's despair becomes even more pronounced: now she believes that only a diseased and dangerous creature would ever voluntarily approach her. But then a new girl joins the outcasts' circle, G raldine, who does not even appear to notice that she is in danger of becoming an outcast herself. And before long H l ne realizes that the less time she spends worrying about what the other girls say is wrong with her, the more able she is to believe that there is nothing wrong at all.

This emotionally honest and visually stunning graphic novel reveals the casual brutality of which children are capable, but also assures readers that redemption can be found through connecting with another, whether the other is a friend, a fictional character or even, amazingly, a fox.

FANNY BRITT is a dramatist, translator, and writer. She has written and translated more than a dozen plays. For her play Bienveillance, she won the Governor General's Literary Prize in Drama in 2013. Jane, the Fox, and Me, her first graphic novel, was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award in Children's Fiction -- Text, won a Libris Award, and made the New York Times Best Illustrated Books list.

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ISBN 13	9788416131259
ISBN 10	8416131252
Title	Jane, el zorro & yo / Jane, the Fox and Me
Author	Isabelle Arsenault
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Year published	2016-09-22
Number of pages	101
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.