{"product_id":"factory-summers-9781770464599","title":"Factory Summers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe legendary cartoonist aims his pen and paper toward his high school summer job\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. \u003ci\u003eFactory Summers\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager, Delisle's keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all-male workplace permits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGuy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site, and furthermore gets the job through his father's connections, a fact which rightfully earns him disdain from the lifers. Guy's dad spends his whole career in the white collar offices, working 9 to 5 instead of the rigorous 12-hour shifts of the unionized labor. Guy and his dad aren't close, and \u003ci\u003eFactory Summers \u003c\/i\u003eleaves Delisle reconciling whether the job led to his dad's aloofness and unhappiness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn his days off, Guy finds refuge in art, a world far beyond the factory floor. Delisle shows himself rediscovering comics at the public library, and preparing for animation school-only to be told on the first day, \"There are no jobs in animation.\" Eager to pursue a job he enjoys, Guy throws caution to the wind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781770464599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156","brand":"Guy Delisle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40040735047861,"sku":"9781770464599","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4fcb5cf9-8d81-4e0f-88b3-fe4905853969.jpg?v=1621344234","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/factory-summers-9781770464599","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}