Wilson - Hardcover

Clowes, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3821861282 ISBN 13: 9783821861289

Publisher: Eichborn Verlag,

Synopsis

Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friends and strangers alike into a series of one-sided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humour. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended and given up for adoption. Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family - a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire.In his first all-new graphic novel, one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Daniel Clowes, creates a thoroughly engaging, complex and fascinating character study of the modern egotist - outspoken and oblivious to the world around him.

Working in a single-page gag format and drawn in a spectrum of styles, the cartoonist of Ghost World, Ice Haven and David Boring gives us his funniest and most deeply affecting novel to date.

About this title

Review:

Once again Daniel Clowes proves himself to be the master of the graphic novel...the celebrator of the loveable loser. --Booktrust.org.uk

`A bleakly funny book' -- Metro

'Wilson is a must-read'
--Book Munch

`Daniel Clowes has created a monster, but a monster who refreshes our empathy for humans in all their unloveliness.'
--The Guardian

Book Description:

Meet Dan Clowes' latest, most outspoken, creation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eichborn Verlag,
• ISBN 10: 3821861282
• ISBN 13: 9783821861289
• Binding: Hardcover