Contributions

  • Zha, Édith, author - Contributor
  • Clowes, Daniel, writer of introduction - Contributor
  • Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator - Contributor

Publication

2017 - New York Review Comics, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

25,000 words, Guess

Page Count

100 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781681371078
  • Open LibraryOL26935378M

Classifications

  • DDC741.5/944
  • LCCPN6747.C53 A2 2017
  • LCCPN6747.C53A2 2017

Description

"Nicole Claveloux's short stories--originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English--are among the most beautiful comics ever created: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us into lands that are very different from our own but oddly recognizable. They are lands filled with murderous grandmothers and lonely city dwellers, bad-tempered vegetables and walls that are surprisingly easy to fall through, lands in which the very air seems alive and capable of telling you a dirty joke (or the meaning of life). In the title story, a new houseplant becomes the first step in an epic journey of self-discovery and a witty fable of modern romance--complete with talking shrubbery, infantile gourmands, a wised-up genie, and one very depressed bird. This new selection is the perfect introduction to the work of an unforgettable, unjustly neglected master of French comics"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The green hand and other storiesNew York Review Comics2017-01-01

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