Shortcomings (Spanish Edition) - Hardcover
"Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive, twenty-something Japanese American, embarks on a cross-country search for contentment--or the perfect girl--in a graphic novel that tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with honesty and humor."
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Amazon Significant Seven, November 2007: Adrian Tomine draws his mid-twenties slackers with an impeccable, exact line for every slumpy gesture and cultivated rumple. In Shortcomings, this ex-wunderkind tackles a book-length comic for the first time after three collections of stories, and his maturity shows not so much in the ages of his characters, who are still slackly wandering, dropping out of grad school or managing a movie theater, but in his calm and masterful handling of his story, in which vividly individual characters wander through the maze of imposed and self-generated stereotypes of Asian and American identities (the title is a wry allusion to one of the most enduring of those assumptions). Never has that old commonplace that the personal is the political seemed more paralyzing, and more true. --Tom Nissley
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Adrian Tomine is the cartoonist of the acclaimed series Optic Nerve, collected into Summer Blonde and Sleepwalk by Drawn & Quarterly, and publishing in the UK by Faber in 2008. His work has recently appeared in McSweeney's and he also works as an illustrator for the New Yorker.
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- PublisherLITERATURA RANDOM HOUSE
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 8439721412
- ISBN 13 9788439721413
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages112
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Book Description Condition: Muy bueno. Ben Tanaka, un joven americano de origen japonés, tiene problemas. Además de atravesar una crisis personal, la relación con su novia, Miko Hayashi, va a la deriva. Miko sospecha que su novio solo tiene ojos para mujeres blancas, y esta acusación se convierte en un arduo debate entre ambos. Cuando Miko decide aceptar una beca en Nueva York y trasladarse a vivir allí una temporada, Ben no parece muy afectado; sin embargo, la relación se resiente hasta el punto de que Miko comienza una nueva vida junto a otra persona. EAN: 9788439721413Tipo: LibrosCategoría: Título: ShortcomingsAutor: Tomine,Adrian Editorial: MONDADORI Formato: Tapa dura. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-04-05-0a31b98c
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