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Everything you need to read the new graphic novel Building
Stories: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines,
Newspapers, and Pamphlets.
With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence,
sometimes it's reassuring-perhaps even necessary-to have something
to hold on to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser
will find a fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to
address virtually any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the
corrosive sarcasm of youth to the sickening earnestness of
maturity-while discovering a protagonist wondering if she'll ever
move from the rented close quarters of lonely young adulthood to
the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage. Whether you're feeling
alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book is sure to
sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities
missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the middle- and
upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in
somewhat damaged form during REM sleep).
A pictographic listing of all 14 items (260 pages total) appears on
the back, with suggestions made as to appropriate places to set
down, forget or completely lose any number of its contents within
the walls of an average well-appointed home. As seen in the pages
of The New Yorker, The New York Times and
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Building Stories
collects a decade's worth of work, with dozens of
"never-before-published" pages (i.e., those deemed too obtuse,
filthy or just plain incoherent to offer to a respectable
periodical).
About the Author
CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged as the most
gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother
and seven-year-old daughter. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest
Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed
as one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The
Times (London) in 2009. An irregular contributor to
This American Life and The New Yorker (where some
of the pages of this book first appeared) his original drawings
have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Chicago and in piles behind his work table in
Oak Park, Illinois.
About the Book
Taking advantage of the absolute latest advances in wood pulp technology, Ware's latest book has no deliberate beginning nor end; the scope, ambition, artistry and emotional prevarication beyond anything yet seen from this artist or in this medium, probably for good reason.
Format: Hardcover
Published: October 2, 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN - 10: 0375424334
ISBN - 13: 9780375424335
