Bibliograph

How to make a monster, Casanova Nobody Frankenstein, Glenn Pearce

Type

Label

How to make a monster, Casanova Nobody Frankenstein, Glenn Pearce

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How to make a monster

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

1285123574

Responsibility statement

Casanova Nobody Frankenstein, Glenn Pearce

Summary

How to Make a Monster is Casanova Frankenstein's unflinching memoir of growing up as a Black INTJ (introverted, intuitive, thinking, and judging)13-year-old in 1980. Conveyed as a bleak first-person narrative with darkly humorous overtones, Casanova Frankenstein reveals how real life experience shaped his hard-bitten, survivalist view of life. His was a world of fear and isolation punctuated by bullying thugs, the stifling atmosphere of the Lutheran school on the South Side of Chicago, racial segregation, unapproachable girls, and a home life consisting of an emotionally distant and unsupportive mother and an violent, alcoholic cop father who was not above giving his son a good thrashing now and again while preaching Christian family values. It is a searing portrait of an unbearably painful upbringing

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