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Mother Come Home Hardcover (Nov084062)
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"Mother, Come Home is Paul Hornschemeier's piercing graphic-novel debut: it secured the cartoonist's place as one of his generation's most skillful and ambitious practitioners, and proved a harbinger of the subject matter that the artist would go on to explore most consistently in later work: the nuclear family.Mother, Come Home quietly studies the inner lives of recently widowed David and his 7-year-old son, Thomas; both are unable to deal with their grief directly. Thomas, protected by a lion's mask that his mother gave him, constructs an identity for himself as 'the groundskeeper': ritual and routine, already important to children that age, become paramount to him. He struggles desperately to keep up appearances while his father, a professor of symbolic logic, becomes lost in abstractions. Father and son begin to retreat into their fantasies, but only one emerges.Mother, Come Home is masterfully drawn: Eisner-, Harvey-, and Ignatz-Award-nominated Hornschemeier's controlled brushwork is clean, and his nine-panel page layouts pace David's inexorable descent into utter despair. Hornschemeier is equally precise when it comes to Mother, Come Home's color palette: subdued but warm, which suits the story's melancholy and contemplative mode. Mother, Come Home is a powerful work, and, because of its universal themes of anguish and loss, has resonance beyond its core audience of alternative-comics readers."
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- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
- Product Type: Graphic Novels
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- Cover Number: 0
- Ratio: 1
- Price: 22.99
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- ISNM: 1560979739
- EAN: 978156097973952299
- Mature: N
- Adult: N
- Writer: Paul Hornschemeier
- Artist: Paul Hornschemeier
- Cover Artist: Paul Hornschemeier
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- Diamond Series Code: 0
- Diamond Code: SEP131180
- Diamond Ship Date: 2010-09-29
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- Diamond Code: AUG101025
- Diamond Ship Date: 2010-09-29
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