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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Agh, oh my god. So many conflicting feelings about such a tiny story. ( ) This is the story of an old man who misses, and loves, his dearly departed wife. While visiting her grave site he is visited by her specter and suffers a heart attack. This is a sweet story, very well drawn, but it fails with my needs for graphic novels, since I feel like they are a way to expose younger children to difficult material and keep struggling readers involved in classroom instruction (on things like literary conventions) that may be at their maturity level if not their reading level. Graphic novels should also be a less intimidating approach to reading for reluctant readers, but this book, while cute, does not contain enough words or substance to really be useful for these purposes. Although this is a good book to browse and available to any reading level, I wouldn't place it in a library unless it were gifted or the library had ample funds or devoted fans.
It’s difficult to separate the story from the art from the book itself; the three are integrated beautifully. This is a near-perfect creation of what some call “pure comics”; as soon as you’ve seen a panel, you’ve read it.
by Jordan Crane An older man sits at his kitchen table, filled with melancholy. Dishes are piled up in the sink, a full pot of coffee burns on the counter; it's a quiet scene of existential despair. The man is a widower, and today is the day to visit his departed wife's gravesite. Little does he know that what the day holds for him will result in this being his last lonely Saturday. Both sweet and bitter, realistic and fantastic, The Last Lonely Saturday is an evocative, romantic novella told in a beautiful two-color, red and yellow palette. His economical images waste not a line, and his narrative flows effortlessly from panel to panel in this heartwarming story of love and love lost. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)741.5The arts Graphic arts and decorative arts Drawing & drawings Cartoons, Caricatures, ComicsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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