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Building Stories - Chris Ware
Building Stories
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After years of sporadic work on other books and projects and following the almost complete loss of his virility, it’s here: a new graphic novel by Chris Ware. Building Stories imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building: a 30-something woman who has yet to find someone... show more
After years of sporadic work on other books and projects and following the almost complete loss of his virility, it’s here: a new graphic novel by Chris Ware.

Building Stories imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building: a 30-something woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple, possibly married, who wonder if they can bear each other’s company another minute; and the building’s landlady, an elderly woman who has lived alone for decades. Taking advantage of the absolute latest advances in wood pulp technology, Building Stories is a book with no deliberate beginning nor end, the scope, ambition, artistry and emotional prevarication beyond anything yet seen from this artist or in this medium, probably for good reason.  

źródło opisu: http://graphic-novels.knopfdoubleday.com/2012/06/2...(?)
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Format: papier
ISBN: 9780375424335
Publisher: Pantheon
Edition language: English
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UNICORN PORN FOR ALL
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL rated it
5.0
A collection of interwoven graphic stories meant to be shuffled and read in random order, Ware's Building Stories has gotten a lot of attention in 2013 as comic writing continues to sidle awkwardly past puberty like a wimpy kid hoping to get past a group of dicks with their hats backwards before the...
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it
3.0 Building Stories
Reading Building Stories is an interesting experience. I liked looking through all the pieces but I didn't necessarily like the story. I'm glad I read it because now my curiosity has been satisfied.
Slightly Off Center Books
Slightly Off Center Books rated it
5.0 Building Stories
This "book" is kind of brilliant. What I find most interesting about graphic novels in general is the unusual ways they are able to tell stories. Building Stories takes that to a whole new level. Each piece in the book brings to light a new snippet it the character's lives, so eventually the whole p...
Raging Biblioholism
Raging Biblioholism rated it
5.0 Building Stories
An incredible and complex examination of our lives of quiet desperation, told from the points of view of a bickering couple, an old landlady, a woman with a missing leg, an industrious bee, and the building that collects them all together. It's an intimidating object - the size, the price tag, the ...
jbradway
jbradway rated it
4.0 Building Stories
Completely captivating and almost completely cheerless, Building Stories is so uniquely and beautifully put together that it's hard to knock it too much for its hopelessness. I even almost want to add a fifth star.I read from smallest to largest piece, went back and read the last page or few panels ...
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