Boundless by Jillian Tamaki (English) Paperback Book

Description: Boundless by Jillian Tamaki Jillian Tamaki brings her combined characteristic realism and humour to her first collection of short stories. Boundless explores the lives of women and how the expectations of others influence their real and virtual selves. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A woman post-breakup becomes obsessed with the mirror Facebook of herself seeing a life that could be hers. Another woman, besieged by bed bugs, studies her relationship and the affects her recently- ended secret affair has on it. An anonymous music file surfaces on the internet and a cult springs up in its wake. A group of city animals briefly open their minds to us; A woman finds her clothes growing baggy, her shoes looser, as she shrinks the world around her recedes. Jillian Tamaki brings her combined characteristic realism and humour to her first collection of short stories. Boundless explores the lives of women and how the expectations of others influence their real and virtual selves. Mixing objective reality, speculative fiction, out-and-out fantasy, and a matter-of-fact feminism, Tamaki shows herself to be a short story talent equal to her peers Adrian Tomine and Eleanor Davis. As Tamaki experiments with art-styles, we see hyper-realist detailing duelling with thick chunky blocks of ink, each delicately setting the mood for her characters inner turmoil. Notes A collection of graphic novel short stories, which explore the lives of women and how the expectations of others influence their real and virtual selves. From the author and illustrator of SuperMutant Magic Academy. Author Biography Jillian Tamaki is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Toronto. She is the co-creator along with her cousin Mariko Tamaki of the graphic novel Skim, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and a finalist for the Governor General s Award. Their second graphic novel This One Summer earned a Governor General s Award and a Caldecott Honour. Tamaki s first collection of her own comics was the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller and Eisner Award-winning, SuperMutant Magic Academy. Review "Each story is as indelible as it is singular [and] so beautifully told that after a while you begin to feel that Tamaki... is capable of almost anything. And perhaps she is."--The Guardian "Restlessly versatile... Boundless collects short stories that are so far apart from one another in tone and technique that they could almost pass for the work of entirely different artists."--New York Times"Boundless feels at one time wholly of this moment and otherworldly, presenting a reality thats tilted slightly off its axis. Her evocative drawings are intimate, energetic, in moments loose and casual, in others tight and finely rendered."--Boston Globe "Jillian Tamakis short comics are propelled by contemporary phenomena... but such elements never seem to shackle Boundless to the present. Tamakis existential wistfulness lifts text messages and memes into the realm of archetype [with] inventive, versatile art."--NPR Best Books of 2017 "[Jillian Tamaki] dazzles with her impressive range in this collection...Lush, vibrant, and packed with emotion."--Entertainment Weekly "Tamakis voice shines throughout this masterpiece... as she effortlessly blends love and pain, fantasy and reality."--Nylon "A fantastical and surreal look at modern life, in gorgeous pencil sketch."--Glamour "Jillian Tamaki boldly emerges as a new titan of the comics medium... The whole endeavor feels like Adrian Tomine meets Jorge Luis Borges, while also feeling like nothing weve seen before."--New York Magazine "A profoundly honest, bittersweet picture of human nature, made all the more haunting by her enchanting artwork."--Booklist, Starred Review"Revelatory... Tamaki has delivered an essential collection of truly modern fiction in comics form."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"Jillian Tamaki seems capable of drawing anything, in any style, and making it appear effortless. Her writing could be described in the same way, and its thrilling to see those twin skills of hers united in service of these daring, unpredictable, and quietly strange stories."--Adrian Tomine, author of Killing and Dying "Jillian Tamakis finely hewn tales read like transmissions from a parallel universe just as lonely as our own, but in a more beautifully felt, hilariously ephemeral way. These are precious stories, stories to fall into like an odd dream you left too soon."--Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Review Quote "[Tamakis] artwork is black-and-white except when she throws in impish splashes of color, drawn with broad, rough brush strokes except when its composed of felt-tip scribbles or shimmering digital gray." - The New York Times " SuperMutant Magic Academy . . . exudes an irresistible wit." - Guardian "Full of idiosyncratic characters and deadpan humor." - GQ Details ISBN1770462872 Author Jillian Tamaki Pages 248 Year 2017 ISBN-10 1770462872 ISBN-13 9781770462878 Format Paperback Publication Date 2017-05-30 Media Book Language English UK Release Date 2017-05-30 Imprint Drawn and Quarterly Place of Publication Montreal Country of Publication Canada Publisher Drawn and Quarterly DEWEY 741.5 Illustrations Colour illustrations throughout Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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