{"product_id":"building-stories-with-books-and-chris-ware-9780375424335","title":"Building Stories [With Book(s) and Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets and Booklet]","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eJimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e comes one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. - \"One of the most important pieces of art I have ever experienced.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it's reassuring--perhaps even necessary--to have something to hold on to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser will find a fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to address virtually any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the corrosive sarcasm of youth to the sickening earnestness of maturity--while discovering a protagonist wondering if she'll ever move from the rented close quarters of lonely young adulthood to the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage. Whether you're feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book is sure to sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the middle- and upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in somewhat damaged form during REM sleep). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA pictographic listing of all 14 items (260 pages total) appears on the back, with suggestions made as to appropriate places to set down, forget or completely lose any number of its contents within the walls of an average well-appointed home. As seen in the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Building Stories collects a decade's worth of work, with dozens of \"never-before-published\" pages (i.e., those deemed too obtuse, filthy or just plain incoherent to offer to a respectable periodical).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Ware\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375424334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375424335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Other\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 16.70h x 11.70w x 1.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Will Eisner Comic Industry Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/25\/2012 pg. 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2012 pg. 1581\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews Fall Preview\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2012 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2012 pg. 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/05\/2012 pg. 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/21\/2012 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/28\/2012 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/05\/2012 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Best Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2012 pg. 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/23\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/30\/2012 pg. 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/02\/2012 pg. 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/20\/2012 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/28\/2012 pg. 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/09\/2014 pg. 17\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot available to be shipped via Media Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris Ware","offers":[{"title":"Other","offer_id":44072288059647,"sku":"9780375424335","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b6ba913-6cbc-4ba9-bcb0-9d92eebc4146.jpg?v=1685441061","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/building-stories-with-books-and-chris-ware-9780375424335","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}