| Blackbird Days Contributor(s): Fior, Manuele (Author), Richards, Jamie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1683960831 ISBN-13: 9781683960836 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books OUR PRICE: $19.54 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary - Comics & Graphic Novels | Historical Fiction - Literary Collections | European - General |
| Dewey: 741.594 |
| LCCN: 2017950374 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.6" W x 11.5" (1.50 lbs) 88 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this collection, two giant robots battle it out in a European metropolis; an engineer is asked to inspect something unusual at a marble quarry; a recently relocated father loses his young son in Berlin's Tempelhof Park; the painter Arnold Böcklin takes a trip before he paints his famous masterpiece, The Island of Death; and, an immigrant grandmother tells the story of how she escaped war in Indochina. Blackbird Days is rounded out with an autobiographical snapshot of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, Fior's home. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fior, Manuele: - MANUELE FIOR was born in Cesena (Italy) in 1975 and currently lives in Paris. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Le Monde, and La Republica. He was nominated for an LA Book Prize. |