Chartwell Manor

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By Glenn Head

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Chartwell Manor is a graphic memoir by Glenn Head recounting his harrowing two years at a boarding school in Mendham, NJ, during the early 1970s. The school, now defunct, was run by a serial sexual and emotional abuser targeting young boys. This book, nearly 50 years in the making, explores the lasting emotional scars from this experience and its impact on Head's adult life, including struggles with addiction and self-destructive behaviours. Head's candid storytelling offers an unflinching look at trauma and survival.
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This memoir is suitable for readers interested in deeply personal, graphic novel formats addressing trauma, resilience, and the nuanced journeys of healing from childhood abuse. It is recommended for mature audiences due to its sensitive content.

New in paperback: alternative cartoonist Glenn Head's harrowing graphic memoir is about years of sexual and emotional abuse suffered at a boarding school during his adolescence and the resultant trauma that took him almost 50 years to process before being able to tell his story publicly.

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No one asks for the childhood they get, and no child ever deserves to go to Chartwell Manor. For Glenn Head, his two years spent at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding school—run by a serial sexual and emotional abuser of young boys in the early 1970s—left emotional scars in ways that he continues to process.

This graphic memoir—a book almost 50 years in the making—tells the story of that experience and then delves with even greater detail into that experience's reverberations in adulthood, including addiction and other self-destructive behaviour. Head tells his story with unsparing honesty, depicting himself as a deeply flawed human struggling to make sense of his childhood. Now in paperback.

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Chartwell Manor has been described as a raw and cathartic narrative that confronts the long-lasting effects of sexual assault with powerful honesty. "Entertainment Weekly" highlights it as a poignant reminder that recovery is a prolonged and complex process.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683966890

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 January 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 244 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 172.0mm

Height: 239.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 244

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Adult Graphic Novels Fiction Glenn Head Graphic Novels

About the Author

Glenn Head was born in 1958 in Morristown, New Jersey, and began drawing comics when he was fourteen. In the early 1990s Head co-created (with cartoonist Kaz) and edited Snake Eyes, the Harvey-Award nominated cutting edge comix anthology series and he was a frequent contributor to the Fantagraphics' comix anthology quarterly Zero Zero. From 2005 to 2010 Glenn edited and contributed to the Harvey and Eisner-nominated anthology HOTWIRE Comics and recently created his graphic epic, Chicago (2015). He lives in New York City.

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