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Material Type: Book
Collection: Comics
Call Number: CAN EVFIC DEL2014
Title: Everywhere Antennas
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Personal name: Delporte, Julie
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015160 checked in 2022-06-07 17:40:13

Additional Bibliographic Information:
Topical term or geographic name as entry element: Everyday Fiction
International Standard Book Number: 9781770461543
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.: Drawn and Quarterly
Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2014
Other physical details: softcover, paperback
Summary, etc. note: Julie Delporte's Everywhere Antennas is a deeply affecting, sparely constructed novel, equal parts Walden and The Bell Jar. Told in the first person, it offers diary-like entries from an anonymous narrator who is undergoing a nervous breakdown and struggling to hold together a failing relationship. In soft, flowing colored pencil, Delporte shows her narrator coming to terms with a rare and misunderstood sensitivity to the radiation emitted by the televisions, cell phones, and computers that permeate urban life. On each page a few words are paired with an image or two, conveying a moment or a thought simply but effectively. Over the course of the book, the anonymous narrator moves from place to place, looking for solutions to her melancholy in the countryside via isolation and in the city with friends, sometimes turning to medication for answers. Throughout, her emotional and intellectual landscape receives as much attention as her physical surroundings. Everywhere Antennas is the portrait of a woman caught in the margins, struggling to balance the demands of technology and modern life with the need to find meaningful relationships and work. Roughly hewn figures, sketched in pencil crayon on brightly contrasting backgrounds, populate the pages of this flowing, emotive work. With Everywhere Antennas, Delporte proves herself a master craftswoman of heartbreakingly personal, beautifully literary graphic fiction.
Expansion of summary note: radiation, sensitivity, technology, social commentary, pencil crayon, isolation, modernity, mental health, Canadian, Canada, anxiety, depression
Method of acquisition: Donation
Date of acquisition: May, 2019
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