{"product_id":"plagues-and-pencils-edward-carey-9781477325865","title":"Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2022 Nonfiction Prize, Writers' League of Texas \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A remarkable collection of words and illustrations documenting the first year of the pandemic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey raced home to Austin, Texas. The next day, he published on social media a sketch of \"A Very Determined Young Man.\" The day after, he posted another drawing. One year and one hundred and fifty Tombow B pencil stubs later, he was still drawing. \u003cp\u003e Carey's pencil fills the page with the marvelous and intriguing, picturing people, characters, animals, monsters, and his favorite bird to draw, the grackle. He reaches into history and fiction to escape grim reality through flights of vivid imagination--until events demand the drawings \"look straight on.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Breonna Taylor, the Brontë sisters, John Lewis, King Lear, and even the portraits that mark the progress of the year for the Very Determined Young Man combine into a remarkable document of the pandemic and its politics. For Carey, though, trapped inside a home he loves, these portraits are something more, a way to chart time, an artist's way of creating connection in isolation. With an introduction by Max Porter, this exceptional collection from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eLittle\u003c\/i\u003e marks a year of a man trapped with his pencil, determined to find solace amid uncertainty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Carey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477325867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477325865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.10h x 5.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Edward Carey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44052284440831,"sku":"9781477325865","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_27e180c6-3327-420e-be1e-c94822181679.jpg?v=1685017951","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/plagues-and-pencils-edward-carey-9781477325865","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}