Special Exits A Memoir

Name: Special Exits A Memoir
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ISBN: 9781606993811

ISBN-10: 160699381X

ISBN-13: 9781606993811

Edition: 2010

Authors: Joyce Farmer, Joyce Farmer

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Special Exits chronicles the decline of Lara (Farmer's stand-in)'s elderly parents (Lars and Rachel)'s health. Set in southern Los Angeles (which makes for a terrifying sequence as blind Rachel and ailing Lars are trapped in their home without power during the 1992 Rodney King riots), backgrounds and props are lovingly detailed: these objects serve as memory triggers for Lars and Rachel, even as they eventually overwhelm them and their home, which the couple is loathe to leave. Rendered in thin, confident pen lines, Special Exits is laid out in an eight-panel grid, which creates a leisurely storytelling pace that not only helps to convey the slow, inexorable decline in Lars' and Rachel's…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Publication date: 12/7/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.760