Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The most ambitious, beautiful, moving comic book ever produced- an astonishing tour de force that won the Guardian First Book Award 2001 and The American Book Award 2001.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. Notes The comic strips of Chris Ware are collected in this graphic novel, which celebrates the life of Jimmy Corrigan, a boy with a face like a disappointed old man. "A comic book with the soul of a literary novel" The New Yorker. Author Biography Chris Ware lives in Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois. His books include Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, which won the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, Building Stories and most recently Monograph, which is part memoir, part retrospective of his career to date. He has won countless awards for his work and has been the subject of several museum exhibitions and scholarly monographs. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker. Review A mesmerising and heartbreaking tale of a heavily burdened and desperately unhappy individual, and the lasting influence of toxic family ties. * Evening Standard *A bona fide masterpiece. * Strong Words * Promotional The most ambitious, beautiful, moving comic book ever produced: an astonishing tour de force that won the Guardian First Book Award 2001 and The American Book Award 2001. Kirkus UK Review Jimmy Corrigan is, as the author describes it, an improvisatory romance. A very odd yet distinctive entry into the comic world, Jimmy Corrigan started life as a weekly comic strip in a Chicago newspaper and was originally intended purely as an semi-autobiographical setting in which to work out some of the authors more embarrasing emotional problems. The problem with such truth exercises, as Chris Ware now realizes, is that they are apt to sprawl out and become a much larger and significant body of work than was ever intended. Jimmy Corrigan is no exception. Everything about this book is both surprising and delightful: the dust cover folds out into an elaborate double-sided diagrammatical poster that is part mind map and partly mind-boggling. The detail between the covers is in turn awesome and inspiring. Not an inch of space is wasted and metric measurements fair no better. Every available piece of the page is beautifully and obsessively filled with what, at first glance, appears to be an oversimplified cartoon style thats sole object is to confuse, but on closer inspection reveals itself to be much more rewarding, complex and, possibly, disturbing. Panels are orientated at many varied and crazy angles, forcing excited eyes to manoeuvre and bend around the page in ways for which they probably werent designed. The plot, for I am determined that there is one, is as completely unexplainable as is any one of our lives, but revolves around common themes such as hope, neglectful parents, overbearing parents, love, life, death, despair and dreams. A totally unique book. (Kirkus UK) Prizes Winner of Guardian First Book Award 2001 Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2001 Review Text A bona fide masterpiece. Review Quote A bona fide masterpiece. Details ISBN0224062107 Pages 380 Year 2001 Illustrator Chris Ware ISBN-10 0224062107 ISBN-13 9780224062107 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2001-06-14 Subtitle The Smartest Kid on Earth Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 741.5973 Illustrations colour illustrations Author Chris Ware Media Book Language English Publisher Vintage Publishing Short Title Jimmy Corrigan UK Release Date 2001-06-14 AU Release Date 2001-06-14 NZ Release Date 2001-06-14 Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd Alternative 9780224063975 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145059321;

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