Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life (2009)

by Ulli Lust

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"Two teenaged punk-rock girls hitchhike their way across Italy without a penny in their pockets. Set in 1984, Ulli Lust's Today is the last day of the rest of your life is an intimate, detailed, funny, touching, and dramatic chronicle of several eventful months in the life of the author as she and her new best friend Edi make their way from Vienna, Austria to Sicily. There is sex. There are drugs. There is rock 'n' roll. And there are stints in jail, inclement weather, panhandling, life lessons, new friendships, acts of kindness and acts of betrayal-- and, this being Sicily, some uncomfortably close brushes with the Organization Whose Name You Mustn't Mention" -- p. [4] of cover.… (more)

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I’m too old to find the antics of two rebel girls hitchhiking to Italy and trading sex for money anything but worrisome. Did not finish. (

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stickersthatmatter | May 29, 2023 |

Seems like I've been saying this a lot lately, but I think I would have enjoyed this more when I was younger. In all honesty, I read a little over half, but I got fed up with her making the same mistakes over and over and OVER again and skimmed the rest. I'm not sure that I missed much. I'm sorry she went through what she did, and I hope she found better friends later in life. I've never been to Italy, but this definitely reinforces all the worst stories about how Italian men behave. (

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LibroLindsay | Jun 18, 2021 |

Pretty darn good. (

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jrmypttrsn | Sep 5, 2019 |

Wonderfully communicates a young woman's experience living as a runaway street urchin in 1980s Europe. The writing is funny, brave and unfiltered, the drawings capture the manic highs and lows of youth with a sort of elegantly messy quality. Three and a half stars. (

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Il libro è ricco di eventi ed emozioni, disegnato in uno stile graffiante e sapiente, dalla resa fresca e immediata che ben incarna l'estetica punk della protagonista. Il racconto sa essere divertente, abrasivo e inquietante nella sua schiettezza.

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Fauve d'Angoulême (Prix Révélation – 2011)

Ignatz Award (Winner – Outstanding Graphic Novel – 2013)

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Prix Révélation d'Angoulême (Fauve d'Angoulême - Prix Révélation – 2011)

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Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life

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Heute ist der Letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens

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"Two teenaged punk-rock girls hitchhike their way across Italy without a penny in their pockets. Set in 1984, Ulli Lust's Today is the last day of the rest of your life is an intimate, detailed, funny, touching, and dramatic chronicle of several eventful months in the life of the author as she and her new best friend Edi make their way from Vienna, Austria to Sicily. There is sex. There are drugs. There is rock 'n' roll. And there are stints in jail, inclement weather, panhandling, life lessons, new friendships, acts of kindness and acts of betrayal-- and, this being Sicily, some uncomfortably close brushes with the Organization Whose Name You Mustn't Mention" -- p. [4] of cover.

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