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Abandoned Cars

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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