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Wilson - Daniel Clowes
Wilson
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AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SCREENWRITER AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of onesided... show more
AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SCREENWRITER AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of onesided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humor. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended and given up for adoption.Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family—a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire. In the first all-new graphic novel from one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Daniel Clowes creates a thoroughly engaging, complex, and fascinating portrait of the modern egoist—outspoken and oblivious to the world around him.Working in a single-page-gag format and drawing in a spectrumof styles, the cartoonist of GhostWorld, Ice Haven, and David Boring gives us his funniest and most deeply affecting novel to date.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781770460072 (1770460071)
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
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Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it
3.0 Clowes' Wilson
Wilson is about a curmudgeonly possible sociopath trying unsuccessfully to connect with other human beings. It is divided into one page stories about Wilson, which advance the narrative. It has a little bit of a Lolita style self-delusion in the narrative, but is not totally consistent on that. T...
crstarlette
crstarlette rated it
It was like listening to my kids read me crappy jokes out of a joke book except with swearing and I didn't have to pretend to be amused - but then since its another adult telling me these crappy jokes, and not my kids, I have less tolerance for it. Basically - it was not funny - over and over and ov...
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