Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth |
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| Author:
| Ware, Chris |
| ISBN: | 978-0-224-06210-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2001 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $59.99 |
Book Description:
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Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the
Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize. It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful,
Jimmy...
More Description Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.
It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who abandoned him as a child. With a subtle, complex and moving story and the drawings that are as simple and original as they are strikingly beautiful, Jimmy Corrigan is a book unlike any other and certainly not to be missed.