Never Goodnight
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Publisher Description
The cult Swedish graphic novel that inspired the critically acclaimed Lukas Moodysson film We Are the Best!
Coco, Klara and Mathilda have known each other since primary school, where they met in folk dancing class. Now they’re almost teenagers, and their anarchist ideals and dreams of forming a world-beating punk band set them apart from the other girls at school. They can’t play any instruments, practice with pillows and pans, and keep getting told that punk is dead. But they’re not going to let any of those things get in their way…
Published in English for the first time, Never Goodnight is a hilarious and life-affirming memoir which will remind you that all you need in life is your best friends, a can of hairspray and three guitar chords.
Reviews
‘I adored it. The translation is excellent, and is helped along by footnotes that help give context to the local bands and trends that non-Swedes won't be familiar with. Coco and her pals are a screaming, thrashing reminder that punk is never dead’ Cory Doctorow
About the author
Coco Moodysson was born in Stockholm in 1970. For many years she studied to become a sign language interpreter but in 1998 she dropped out and started drawing comics. Her graphic novel Never Goodnight was adapted into the critically acclaimed 2013 film We Are the Best! by her husband, director Lukas Moodysson.
Coco lives in Malmö with her husband and their three children.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Seven years after its initial Swedish publication and two after the release of the critically acclaimed film it inspired, We Are the Best this graphic memoir finally gets its first official American release. A portrait of Moodyson the artist as a young Stockholm punk rocker during the early 1980s, it's as much the tale of teenage female friendship as it is a snapshot of punk's formative years in the Scandinavian music scene sort of a Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains that never really gets off the musical runway. Ultimately, Moodysson's band is virtually inconsequential, playing a couple opening gigs that culminate in the group getting booed of the stage by rowdy teenage punks. But the friendships stay strong through the musical dissolution, uneven home lives, bad boyfriends, and overdrinking. Never Goodnight is a delightful look at teenage rebellion, told through Moodysson's simple, unrefined artwork, which perfectly complements the limitless sense of possibility that helped the DIY movement invigorate a generation.
