| Description |
1 volume (various paging) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Summary |
Ex Libris revolves around a character trapped in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they begin to suspect that the comics contain hidden messages and ... a threat. Fiction and reality blur; sanity and madness become increasingly intertwined as the reader becomes convinced the key to their predicament is to be found between the panels of the strange books. With a dizzying array of inventive visual and narrative styles, Ex Libris continues the line of exploration and play that Madden initiated with 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Ex Libris is a tribute to the meta-fictional tradition of writers like Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cor̀tzar, Vladimir Nabokov, and Italo Calvino (whose novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, was the inspiration). |
| Subject |
Books and reading in literature -- Fiction.
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Books and reading in literature -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Rooms -- Fiction.
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Rooms -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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| Genre |
Comics (Graphic works)
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Graphic novels.
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| ISBN |
9781941250440 |
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1941250440 |
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