Ghost World

(Paperback)

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The astonishing graphic novel that became a cult classic and a major movie. Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the mundane thrills and hourly tragedies of a waning adolescence, as he follows a tenuous narrative thread through the fragmented lives of these two fully realised young women.

Reviews

For once in a comic story, people are portrayed as they really talk and act. Clowes' pitch is uncannily accurate * Washington Post *
A hilarious, melancholy graphic novel * Newsweek *
Clowes' remarkable Ghost World might some day become a primer for the next generation of comics writers and artists... Masterfull * Spin *
Clowes spells out the realities of teenage angst as powerfully and authentically as Salinger did in Catcher in the Rye for an earlier generation * Hartford Advocate *
If ever there was a comic book story meant to be examined by non-comics fans, it's this, a classic in any medium * The Onion *

Author Bio

Daniel Clowes was born in 1961. He is the creator of the comic books Eightball, Ghost World, which was made into a film by the director Terry Zwigoff, David Boring, and Ice Haven. His adaptation of his own Ghost World graphic novel for the screen earned him an Oscar nomination. A regular contributor to the New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Best American Comics, he lives in California with his wife.