The Cardboard Valise
Ben KatchorSale price:$22.06
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The first book in more than ten years from "the creator of the last great American comic strip" (Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author): the story of the fantastical nation of Outer Canthus and the three people who, in some way or another, inhabit its shores.
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 intertwine 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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 03/15/2011
ISBN: 9780375421143
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 8.70h x 11.06w x 0.80d
Review Citations: Booklist 03/15/2011 pg. 33
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2010 pg. 46
Publishers Weekly 01/03/2011
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2010 pg. 1234
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 intertwine 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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 03/15/2011
ISBN: 9780375421143
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 8.70h x 11.06w x 0.80d
Review Citations: Booklist 03/15/2011 pg. 33
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2010 pg. 46
Publishers Weekly 01/03/2011
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2010 pg. 1234