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Comics |
Call Number:
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US EVFIC DRN2016 |
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Beverly |
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Personal name:
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Drnaso, Nick |
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015140 |
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2022-05-27 16:13:51 |
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Additional Bibliographic Information:
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element:
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Everyday Fiction |
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978177046225 |
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Drawn and Quarterly |
Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
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2016 |
Summary, etc. note:
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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 façade 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. |
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teenagers, college, suburbs, suburbia, suburban, adolescence, childhood, life narrative, pastel, family, marriage, US, American |
Source of acquisition:
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Rotem Diamant |
Method of acquisition:
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Donation |
Date of acquisition:
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May, 2018 |
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24.95 |
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