Hello, Again

Estes, Max

ISBN 10: 1891830635 / ISBN 13: 9781891830631

Published by Top Shelf Productions, 2005

Very Good condition. Seller Inventory # I08B-05738

Synopsis:

• William is finding out that his past may not be buried as deep as he once thought. In fact, a colorful character from his past has just crawled out of the ground and is refusing to leave until William changes his ways. Hello, Again is the tale of a drunken fisherman, an unfaithful fiancé, and a guilt ridden apartment manager, whose lives intersect with unsuspecting and dangerous consequences.

Reviews: Estes' first book is modest in size but large in the life lesson it conveys. It's about Willy, who doesn't do much but superintend the building he lives in, unless you count hitting the sheets regularly with his best friend's fiancee. In that, he's rather like his father, who left the family after little Willy found him in flagrante with the babysitter. That discovery haunts Willy, along with the time he and other kids unmoored a boat, which contained a passed-out drunk, that then drifted out to sea. Now, from a hole in the lawn, the drunk reenters Willy's life to help him learn how to deal with the past and the present and perhaps do better in the future with another, unencumbered woman. Estes' economies of line and tone (this is a strictly black-and-white graphic novel) make Willy's story resemble one of filmmaker Eric Rohmer's contes morales about modern love, though his equally economical dialogue more resembles that of such more purely visual moral filmmakers as Robert Bresson and Alfred Hitchcock. Ray Olson
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Bibliographic Details

Title: Hello, Again
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good