Dans ce premier roman graphique, Nick Drnaso décline son propos en six histoires imbriquées les unes dans les autres et dont le conducteur est marqué par la présence de plusieurs personnages récurrents. Histoires très imprégnées par un malaise profond, générateur de fantasmes insidieux parfois marqués par un sadisme primaire qui pourrait faire penser parfois au film « Storytell...(展开全部)

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 potentia...(展开全部)

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 potentia...(展开全部)

Dans ce premier roman graphique, Nick Drnaso décline son propos en six histoires imbriquées les unes dans les autres et dont le conducteur est marqué par la présence de plusieurs personnages récurrents. Histoires très imprégnées par un malaise profond, générateur de fantasmes insidieux parfois marqués par un sadisme primaire qui pourrait faire penser parfois au film « Storytell...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the humbug of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitorshis former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Comeshow him the error of his ways, and by the time Christmas Day dawns, Scrooge is a cha...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the humbug of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitorshis former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Comeshow him the error of his ways, and by the time Christmas Day dawns, Scrooge is a cha...(展开全部)

In his best-known book, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, Kazuo Ishiguro advances the butler's story, not by giving, but by withholding both information and emotion. This novel is about a woman who lived in Nagasaki after the bomb was dropped. We don't hear the explosion. We don't even hear the names of the dead. And yet it's very clear that something perfectly wretched has gone on. Is s...(展开全部)

The story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a story where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.

In his best-known book, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, Kazuo Ishiguro advances the butler's story, not by giving, but by withholding both information and emotion. This novel is about a woman who lived in Nagasaki after the bomb was dropped. We don't hear the explosion. We don't even hear the names of the dead. And yet it's very clear that something perfectly wretched has gone on. Is s...(展开全部)

The story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a story where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.