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Everywhere Antennas
Julie Delporte
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Description for Everywhere Antennas
Paperback. Everywhere Antennas is the portrait of a woman caught in the margins, struggling to balance the demands of technology and modern life with the need to find meaningful relationships and work. Roughly hewn figures, sketched in pencil crayon on brightly contrasting backgrounds, populate the pages of this flowing, emotive work. Num Pages: 112 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 196 x 12. Weight in Grams: 278.
Julie Delporte's Everywhere Antennas is a deeply affecting, sparely constructed novel, equal parts Walden and The Bell Jar. Told in the first person, Everywhere Antennas offers diary-like entries from an anonymous narrator who is undergoing a nervous breakdown and struggling to hold together a failing relationship. In soft, flowing coloured pencil, Delporte shows her narrator coming to term with a rare and misunderstood sensitivity to the radiation emitted by the televisions, cell phones, and computers that permeate urban life. The anonymous narrator moves from place to place, looking for solutions to her melancholy in the countryside via isolation and in ... Read more
Julie Delporte's Everywhere Antennas is a deeply affecting, sparely constructed novel, equal parts Walden and The Bell Jar. Told in the first person, Everywhere Antennas offers diary-like entries from an anonymous narrator who is undergoing a nervous breakdown and struggling to hold together a failing relationship. In soft, flowing coloured pencil, Delporte shows her narrator coming to term with a rare and misunderstood sensitivity to the radiation emitted by the televisions, cell phones, and computers that permeate urban life. The anonymous narrator moves from place to place, looking for solutions to her melancholy in the countryside via isolation and in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781770461543
SKU
V9781770461543
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-37
About Julie Delporte
Born in Saint-Malo, France, in 1983, Julie Delporte currently lives in Montreal, where she publishes books and zines. A collection of her journal comics was published by Koyama Press in May 2013. She has published a French children's book (Je suis un raton laveur), as well as some short pieces at L'employe du Moi (Belgium) and in various anthologies. She ... Read more
Reviews for Everywhere Antennas
At its very best moments, Journal becomes indistinguishable from poetry-and there are, as the reader will discover, many such moments.-Publishers Weekly