Dead Season and Other Stories |
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| Author:
| Claveloux, Nicole
Salomon, Elisabeth
Zha, Édith |
| Translator:
| Nicholson-Smith, Donald |
| Introduction by:
| Kleeman, Alexandra |
| ISBN: | 978-1-68137-346-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2026 |
| Publisher: | New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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| Imprint: | New York Review Comics |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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A new selection of graphic stories by one of France's most influential artists, now translated into English. Nicole Claveloux's exquisitely surreal comics offer a mix of whimsy and melancholy, invention and candor that can be found nowhere else. In "Dead Season" -- her second collaboration with Edith Zha, who wrote her gorgeous dreamworld odyssey "The Green Hand" -- she follows a mismatched pair of investigators into a windswept seaside town. They soon find that all...
More Description A new selection of graphic stories by one of France's most influential artists, now translated into English.
Nicole Claveloux's exquisitely surreal comics offer a mix of whimsy and melancholy, invention and candor that can be found nowhere else. In "Dead Season" -- her second collaboration with Edith Zha, who wrote her gorgeous dreamworld odyssey "The Green Hand" -- she follows a mismatched pair of investigators into a windswept seaside town. They soon find that all is not what it seems -- and it already seemed pretty weird...
The title story is joined by a selection of Claveloux's delightfully strange shorter comics, featuring the struggles of a talking spider, the joys of a dancing macaroni, the very odd story of a woman in love with an economist, and much more.