Drnaso Nick - Beverly - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak. A group of teenagers pick up trash on the side of the highway - - flirting preening and ignoring a potentially violent loner in their midst. A college student brings her sort - of boyfriend to a disastrous house party with her high - school acquaintances. A young woman experiences a traumatic incident at the pizza shop where she works and the fallout reveals the racial tensions simmering below the surface. Again and again the civilized fa ade of Drnaso's pitch - perfect surburban sprawl and pasty Midwestern protagonists cracks in the face of violence and quiet brutality. Drnaso's bleak social satire in Beverly reveals a brilliant command of the social milieu of twenty - first - century existence echoing the black comic work of Todd Solondz Sam Lipsyte and Daniel Clowes. Precisely and hauntingly recounted each chapter of Beverly reveals something new - - and yet familiar - - about the world in which we live.
Title: Beverly
Author(s): Drnaso Nick
Publisher: Drawn And Quarterly
Barcode: 9781770462250
Pages: 136 Pages, Colour Illustrations Throughout
Publication Date: 1/26/2016
Category: Graphic Novels