Pachyderme: Frederik Peeters - Rilegato

Peeters, Frederik

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ISBN 10: 1906838607 ISBN 13: 9781906838607

Casa editrice: Selfmadehero, 2012

Riassunto

This cinematic tale opens surrealistically: with a traffic jam caused by a wounded elephant. Our heroine, Carice, abandons her car and walks trancelike through a wood to visit her husband in the hospital. Along the way she meets a few odd characters, including a blind pig keeper and an alien-looking baby. The surreal encounters do not stop there. The hospital is eerie and foreboding. When Carice’s whistling wakes up an apparently dead body in the morgue, she soon realizes that the aged cadaver she’s talking to is her future self.

Praise for Pachyderme:

“Peeters’ tale of self-discovery is enthralling; in the author’s hands, Cold War paranoia and thoughtfully subverted realist art provides commentary on other kinds of secrets, other kinds of betrayals and the conflict between duty and need.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Peeters’ evocative artwork—inspired equally, it seems, by classic Hollywood and the great horror comics of mid-century—makes every page eye-catching.” —Slate

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Recensione:

That s Peeters masterful control of timing and pace at work, to make Pachyderme so incredibly rich and involved, so breathless and out of control, yet everything, including the reader s experience of his work, is planned out, meticulously, perfectly, beautifully, to create something disturbing and marvellous. --Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet

L'autore:

Frederik Peeters has been nominated five times at Angoulême in the best book category, and won the best series prize in 2013. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Selfmadehero
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1906838607
• ISBN 13: 9781906838607
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 88