| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Summary |
Superficially resembling 1960s teenage humor comics, Tim Hensley's graphic novel Wally Gropius is actually an acute satire of power, celebrity hood, and modern culture that tells the story of the titular character, who bears a closer resemblance to a teenaged Richie Rich or a classmate of Archie Andrews at Riverdale High than he does the famous Bauhaus architect whose name he shares. Wally is the human Dow Jones, the heir to a vast petrochemical conglomerate. When the elder Thaddeus Gropius confronts Wally with the boilerplate plot ultimatum that he must marry 'the saddest girl in the world' or be disinherited, a yarn unravels that is part screwball comedy and part unhinged parable on the lucrativeness of changing your identity. Hensley's dialogue is witty, lyrical, sampled, dada, and elliptical--all in the service of a very bizarre mystery. There's sex, violence, rock and roll, intrigue, and betrayal--all brought home in Hensley's truly inimitable style. Created during an era when another well-off 'W' was stuffing the coffers of the morbidly solvent, Wally Gropius transforms futile daydreams and nightmares into the absurdity of capital. |
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Rated M |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Teenage boys -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Children of the rich -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Inheritance and succession -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Mate selection -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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American wit and humor, Pictorial.
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Comic books, strips, etc -- United States.
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Graphic novels.
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Graphic novels.
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| Added Author |
Hensley, Tim.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781606993552 (electronic bk.) |
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1606993550 (electronic bk.) |
| Music No. |
MWT12414157 |
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