Good/Grief

By Josh Koppel

A self-portrait from the digital generation, GOOD/GRIEF is an adventure through the anxieties of growing up, told in a memorable, unorthodox format. Combine Koppel's ingenious QuickCam images with his hilarious way with words and you have an arresting debut: six almost mythic incidents from Koppel's childhood, including the trauma of first pubic hairs and the realization that dancing with his mother can be kind of . . . well, you know, strange. It's just like a children's book--except it's for adults. By turns humorous, scary, tender, and always disarming, GOOD/GRIEF introduces a born storyteller.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060956283
• ISBN13: 9780060956288
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

Best book i have bought in years!

this is a unique and heart felt look at growing up. Josh Koppel makes you feel every emotion he felt as he takes you along on what seemed like watching a short film or a series of short films. If you want something to add to your bookshelf this is definetly one to add. Super!

just lovely

It's a fat little book with powerful black and white images anda few words on each page. What can I say? It's achingly honest,beautiful and private. Josh delivers a message -- a story -- withoutextraneous frills and empty lyricism. Each page delivers, and thereare no wasted words...

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Touching and funny stories of innocence lost told in a truly unique graphical way. Josh tells stories straight from the heart, and his honesty, vulnerability and childlike curiousity shine through on every page.

a children's book for grown-ups

Although a picture book may seem like an unlikely place to confront death, masturbation, and the Oedipus complex, the funny and painful stories in Good/Grief do exactly that. And it makes sense: If you've got to take on uncomfortable subjects, why not do it in a comfortable format? Narrated in concise, pellucid prose, illustrated by Koppel's own beautiful black-and-white photographs, the six stories in this book are hauntingly personal, told with a rare and challenging honesty. I recommend it to one and all.

Heartfelt Humor

Good/Grief should be in everyone's home! From the dramatic pictures and poetic phrases to the eye catching book cover, Josh Koppel pulls all the emotions out of you.