Thursday, June 24, 2010

giveaway: the impostor's daughter

The Impostor's Daughter by Laurie Sandell is coming out in paperback!! I loved this graphic novel. Hachette is offering five giveaway copies, so you have the chance to read it and love it as well.

Way back when, I reviewed it (and gave it 5/5). Here's what Publishers Weekly said:
"In this delightfully composed graphic novel, journalist Sandell (Glamour) illustrates a touchingly youthful story about a daughter's gushing love for her father. Using a winning mixture of straightforward comic-book illustrations with a first-person diarylike commentary, Sandell recounts the gradual realization from her young adulthood onward that her charming, larger-than-life Argentine father, bragging of war metals, degrees from prestigious universities and acquaintances with famous people, had lied egregiously to his family about his past and accomplishments. Growing up with her two younger sisters and parents first in California, then in Bronxville, N.Y., the author records signs along the way that her father, a professor of economics with a volatile temperament and autocratic manner, was hiding something, from his inexplicable trips out of town, increasing paranoid isolation, early name change from Schmidt to Sandell, to massive credit-card fraud. Interviewing her father for her first magazine article, the author resolved to check his sources and even flew later to confront his past in Argentina, only to discover the truth. Feeling betrayed, guilty for exposing him and mistrustful in her relationships with men, Sandell numbed herself by abusing Ambien and alcohol. Her depiction of her rehab adventure is rather pat and tidy, and she does not address the notion that her own creativity might have sprung from her father's very duplicity. However, Sandell's method of storytelling is marvelously unique and will surely spark imitators."

The rules: Enter by leaving a comment to this post with your email (if I can't contact you, you can't win). You can gain additional entries by leaving separate comments letting me know that you're a follower or have posted a link to the giveaway on your site. The deadline to enter is 11:59pm Pacific on July 3. Winners will be selected at random. Since this is from Hachette the winners must have mailing addresses in the US or Canada; no PO Boxes.

19 comments:

  1. Please count me in.

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  2. I'd love to read The Impostor's Daughter :) *Thanks* for the giveaway!
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  10. I have heard great things about this book and I'm really interested in the graphic part of it as I haven't read any graphic novels yet! Please enter me in your giveaway.

    Thank you!

    ~ Amy
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  18. Sounds like a great read! Please accept this as my entry... Thank you!

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