Blue is the warmest color

"Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine, a high school student, has an average life: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she...

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Main Author: Maroh, Julie, 1985-
Other Authors: Hahnenberger, Ivanka.
Format: Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel
Language: English
French
Published: Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013.
Edition: English language edition.
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Summary: "Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine, a high school student, has an average life: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she wanders into a lesbian bar where she encounters Emma: a punkish, confident girl with blue hair. Their attraction is instant and electric, and Clementine finds herself in a relationship that will test her friends, parents, and her own ideas about herself and her identity"-- from publisher's web site.
Item Description: Translation of: Le bleu est une couleur chaude.
Translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger.
Physical Description: 156 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Issued also in electronic format.
ISBN: 9781551525143 (pbk.)
1551525143 (pbk.)
Author Notes: Julie Maroh is an author and illustrator originally from northern France. She studied comic art at the Institute Saint-Luc in Brussels and lithography and engraving at the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels, where she still lives. After self-publishing three comics collections, her French-language graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude was published by Glénat in 2010; it won several awards, including the Audience Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Europe's largest.