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Author:
| McGuire, Richard |
Series title: | Pantheon Graphic Library |
ISBN: | 978-0-375-40650-8 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2014 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Pantheon |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision: the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. "A book like this comes along once a decade, if not a century.... I guarantee that you'll remember exactly where you are, or were, when you first read it." --Chris Ware, The Guardian "In
Here McGuire has...
More Description From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision: the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.
"A book like this comes along once a decade, if not a century.... I guarantee that you'll remember exactly where you are, or were, when you first read it." --Chris Ware, The Guardian
"In Here McGuire has introduced a third dimension to the flat page. He can poke holes in the space-time continuum simply by imposing frames that act as transtemporal windows into the larger frame that stands for the provisional now. Here is the comic-book equivalent of a scientific breakthrough. It is also a lovely evocation of the spirit of place, a family drama under the gaze of eternity and a ghost story in which all of us are enlisted to haunt and be haunted in turn." --The New York Times Book Review
With full-color illustrations throughout.