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The cardboard valise / Ben Katchor.
- Title
- The cardboard valise / Ben Katchor.
- Author
- Katchor, Ben.
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Request in advance | PN6733.K38 C37 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill.; 23 x 28 cm.
- Summary
- "Emile Delilah is a young xenophile (lover of foreign nations) so addicted to traveling to the exotic regions of Outer Canthus that the government pays him a monthly stipend just so he can continue his visits. Living in the same tenement as Emile are Boreal Rince, the exiled king of Outer Canthus, and Elijah Salamis, a supranationalist determined to erase the cultural and geographic boundaries that separate the citizens of the Earth. Although they rarely meet, their lives inƯtertwine through the elaborate fictions they construct and inhabit: a vast panorama of humane hamburger stands, exquisitely ethereal ethnic restaurants, ancient restroom ruins, and wild tracts of land that fit neatly next to high-rise hotels. The Cardboard Valise is a graphic novel as travelogue; a canvas of semi-surrealism; and a poetic, whimsical, beguiling work of Ben Katchor?s dazzling imagination."--Publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Graphic novels
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Note
- Collection of new and previously published comic strips.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780375421143 (hardcover) :
- 0375421149 (hardcover) :
- LCCN
- ^^2010022967
- OCLC
- 630500105
- SCSB-11695426
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library