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1 online resource |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Summary |
Do ideas of war and enemies hold a people together? Is a culture of conflict too seductive not to be irresistible? These are the questions Cathy Malkasian explores in her second graphic novel, Temperance. Malkasian creates, as she did in the critically acclaimed Percy Gloom, a fully realized, multi-layered world, inhabited by vividly realized characters. After a brutal injury in battle, Lester has no memory of his prior life. For the next thirty years his wife does everything to keep him from remembering―and re-constructing―a society, Blessedbowl, that elevates him as a hero. Blessedbowl is a cultural convergence of lies, memories, stories, and beliefs. Its people thrive on ideas of persecution, exceptionality, and enemies, convinced that war lurks just outside their walls. They have come to depend on Lester, their greatest war hero, to lead the charge once the Final Battle begins. Malkasian creates a densely textured social context, masterfully conveying the idiosyncratic physical domain with its spiraling structures and quasi-medieval architecture along with intimate yet plastic portraits of her characters in a rich, tonal pencil line. Temperance is a galvanizing work of empathy and violence by one of today's the most thoughtful and accomplished cartoonists. |
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Rated M |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Amnesiacs -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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War -- Psychological aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Married people -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Culture conflict -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Fear -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Graphic novels.
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Electronic books.
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Graphic novels.
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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| Added Author |
Malkasian, Cathy.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781606993231 (electronic bk.) |
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1606993232 (electronic bk.) |
| Music No. |
MWT12190016 |
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