| Look Hamlet Contributor(s): Lindgren, Barbro (Author), Höglund, Anna (Illustrator), Willson-Broyles, Rachel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1632062593 ISBN-13: 9781632062598 Publisher: Restless Books OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Adaptations - Comics & Graphic Novels | Humorous - Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary |
| LCCN: 2018948278 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.1" W x 7.3" (0.45 lbs) 32 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A hilarious, darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children's author Barbro Lindgren and illustrator Anna H glund. Look Hamlet. Hamlet not happy. Hamlet's mommy dumb. Hamlet's daddy dead. So begins this wonderfully strange, dark, and hilarious picture book version of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy boiled down to its smallest possible size: 100 words, give or take, and fifteen etchings that look like the lovechild of Beatrix Potter and Edward Gorey. In our despondent antihero, a lop-eared bunny Hamlet with handbag in tow, is somehow embodied all the tremendous pathos of Shakespeare's Danish Prince. And in legendary Swedish children's author Barbro Lindgren's pithy prose resides the poetry of the original, reworked for the era of memes and short attention spans. Bold and brilliant, irreverent and humane, Look Hamlet is the perfect irreverent gift for Shakespeare readers of all ages. As the Bard himself wrote: "brevity is the soul of wit." |
Contributor Bio(s): Willson-Broyles, Rachel: - Rachel Willson-Broyles is a freelance translator based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She received her BA from Gustavus Adolphus College and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her other translations include Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novels Montecore and Everything I Don't Remember and plays INVASION! and I Call My Brothers, Malin Persson Giolito's novel Quicksand, and Jonas Jonasson's novels The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden and The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old-Man. |