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Waste Land
Martin Rowson
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Description for Waste Land
Paperback. Marlowe, searching for his dead partner's killers, is lured into a web of murder, deceit, lust, despair, and, of course, a frantic quest for the Holy Grail. Doped, pistol-whipped, framed by the cops, and going nowhere fast, Marlowe enters a nightmare world where Robert Frost, Norman Mailer, and Edmund Wilson drink in the gloom of a London pub. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrated in halftones throughout. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 238 x 7. Weight in Grams: 170.
In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic parody is inspired in equal parts by the classic modernist poem and by the American noir novels of Raymond Chandler. Marlowe, searching for his dead partner's killers, is lured into a web of murder, deceit, lust, despair, and, of course, a frantic quest for the Holy Grail. Doped, duped, pistol-whipped, framed by the cops, and going nowhere fast, Marlowe enters a nightmare world where ... Read more
In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic parody is inspired in equal parts by the classic modernist poem and by the American noir novels of Raymond Chandler. Marlowe, searching for his dead partner's killers, is lured into a web of murder, deceit, lust, despair, and, of course, a frantic quest for the Holy Grail. Doped, duped, pistol-whipped, framed by the cops, and going nowhere fast, Marlowe enters a nightmare world where ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
73
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857420411
SKU
V9780857420411
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Ref
99-17
About Martin Rowson
Martin Rowson is a writer and cartoonist. His work appears frequently in the Guardian and the Independent. His most recent books include The Dog Allusion, Fuck: The Human Odyssey, and Giving Offence.
Reviews for Waste Land
"The Waste Land by Martin Rowson, a comic strip version of the poem... is far funnier and perhaps more genuinely learned than the original." (Peter Ackroyd, Times (UK)) "Irresistibly funny.... Martin Rowson has produced not only a first-rate comic book but also an acute critical commentary, footnotes and all. His book is a marvel of sly scholarship and invention." (Village ... Read more