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Material Type: Book
Collection: Comics
Call Number: US EVFIC DRN2016
Title: Beverly
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Personal name: Drnaso, Nick
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015140 checked in 2022-05-27 16:13:51

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Topical term or geographic name as entry element: Everyday Fiction
International Standard Book Number: 978177046225
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.: Drawn and Quarterly
Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2016
Summary, etc. note: 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.
Expansion of summary note: teenagers, college, suburbs, suburbia, suburban, adolescence, childhood, life narrative, pastel, family, marriage, US, American
Source of acquisition: Rotem Diamant
Method of acquisition: Donation
Date of acquisition: May, 2018
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