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Item Details
Title:
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BEVERLY
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By: |
Nick Drnaso |
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Paperback |
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£20.00 |
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£14.60 |
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£5.40 |
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ISBN 10: |
1770462252 |
ISBN 13: |
9781770462250 |
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Publisher: |
DRAWN AND QUARTERLY |
Pub. date: |
15 January, 2016 |
Pages: |
136 |
Description: |
Drnaso's bleak social satire in Beverly reveals a brilliant command of the social milieu of twenty-first century existence, echoing the black comic work of Todd Solondz, Sam Lipsyte, and Daniel Clowes. |
Synopsis: |
Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak. A group of teenagers pick up trash on the side of the highway-flirting, preening, and ignoring a potentially violent loner in their midst. A college student brings her sort-of boyfriend to a disastrous house party with her high school acquaintances. A young woman experiences a traumatic incident at the pizza shop where she works and the fallout reveals the racial tensions simmering below the surface. Again and again, the civilized facade of Drnaso's pitch-perfect surburban sprawl and pasty Midwestern protagonists cracks in the face of violence and quiet brutality. Drnaso's bleak social satire in Beverly reveals a brilliant command of the social milieu of twenty-first century existence, echoing the black comic work of Todd Solondz, Sam Lipsyte, and Daniel Clowes. Precisely and hauntingly recounted, each chapter of Beverly reveals something new-and yet familiar-about the world in which we live. |
Illustrations: |
colour illustrations throughout |
Publication: |
Canada |
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Drawn and Quarterly |
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Returnable |
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