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Building Stories

by Chris Ware

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      About the Book

      After years of sporadic work on other books and projects and following the almost complete loss of his virility, it's here: a new graphic novel by Chris Ware.
      "Building Stories" imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building: a 30-something woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple, possibly married, who wonder if they can bear each other's company another minute; and the building's landlady, an elderly woman who has lived alone for decades. Taking advantage of the absolute latest advances in wood pulp technology, "Building Stories" is a book with no deliberate beginning nor end, the scope, ambition, artistry and emotional prevarication""beyond anything yet seen from this artist or in this medium, probably for good reason.

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      • Media: Hardcover Book
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      • Publisher: Pantheon Books
      • Publication Date: Oct. 2nd, 2012
      • ISBN-10: 0375424334
      • ISBN-13: 9780375424335
      • Shipping Weight: 1.25 lbs
      • Series: Not Applicable
      • Categories: Puppets & Puppetry Art Literary Comics & Literary Graphic Novels

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