Chartwell Manor
ISBN-13: 9781683966890
Author(s): Glenn Head
Subjects: FX, XA
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Publisher Imprint: Fantagraphics
Publication Date: 10-01-2023
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£24.99
About the book
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 behavior. Head tells his story with unsparing honesty, depicting himself as a deeply flawed human struggling to make sense of his childhood. Now in paperback.