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Abandoned Cars

Door Tim Lane

Categorie
Strips
Boeknummer
#357251-XI26
Titel
Abandoned Cars
Auteur
Lane, Tim
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Seattle : Fantagraphics Books, Inc.
Jaar van uitgave
2010
ISBN10
1606993410
ISBN13
9781606993415
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, comic in b/w, large 8vo.
Samenvatting
Abandoned Cars is Tim Lane's first collection of graphic short stories, noirish narratives that are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate its pages. The writing is straightforward, the stories mainstream but told in a pulpy idiom with an existential edge, often in the first person, reminiscent of films like Out of the Past. Visually, Lane's drawing is in a realistic mode, which heightens the tension in stories that veer between naturalism on the one hand and the comical, nightmarish, and hallucinatory on the other. It's an America depicted as a subdued and haunted Coney Island, made up of lost characters boozing, brawling, haplessly shooting themselves in the face, and hopping freight trains in sear... (Lees verder)ch of Elvis.
Pagina's
163
Conditie
Redelijk — Bottom spine slightly bumped; worn spots cover.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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