It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella by Seth
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1896597319 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In Search of the Real Seth Richard C. Geschke I'm glad I got to read this graphic novella by Seth as the third work and not the first which I believe many have done. This graphic work does much to explain the later oeuvre of Seth's body of work. I realize that every fiction novelist writes into their novels their own life experiences. Seth goes beyon. Pleasant enough, but did not make me a Seth fan Ted What's most likable about this graphic novel's protagonist and narrator is that he's something of a self-lacerating, depressed, oversensitive, melancholy soul, a true negative-thinker -- the sort of constantly gloomy, soliloquizing character who might ultimately prove exasperating to hang around with but . "Feeble Narcissism" according to Nick. I've rarely experienced such a dislike of the main protagonist in any book that I can remember, "graphic novella" or else. This is mostly due to how the main character (a self-insert) is presented in the beginning. Seth is shown to be an obnoxious, arrogant, self-pitying, shallow person who doesn't realis
Seth lives in Guelph, Ontario with five cats, a gigantic collection of vintage records, comic books, and 20th century Canadiana, and his very patient wife. Seth was born in 1962 in a rural Ontario town. He regularly contributes illustrations to The New Yorker and the National Post and recently provided the entire album artwork for Sony records singer-songwriter, Aimee Mann.
“Seth invites the reader to linger cozily in his ruminative, patient stories, each of which grows from Seth's obsession with the past.” The Village Voice“Rich, evocativecharacterized by small moments revealing the author's sharp eye for detail” The Globe and Mail
Seth`s evocative drawings are presented here in this lavish edition, printed in two colors on ivory-tinted paper. This new edition is presented with a new four-color die-cut image embossed onto its cloth cover and includes an eleven page section of `found` Kalo cartoons, with an extensive glossary of cartoon figures past and present.. Seth`s clever useof both fictional and autobiographical elements prompted Details magazine to write an extensive article last year on this noted book. One of Drawn & Quarterly`s most popular and well-received books in recent years, It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken is now available in a new beautifully-produced, deluxe clothbound edition! This Ignatz Award-winningbook tells the story of Seth`s search for meaning in the life and work of Kalo, a forgotten New Yorker cartoonist from the 1940`s