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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9781416549468
ISBN number: 1416549463
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: April 01, 2008
Publishing house: Touchstone
Sale Popularity Level: 401810
Studio: Touchstone
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A collection of funny, poignant, and autobiographical short stories, Little Things looks at the aspects of daily life -- friendship, illness, death, work, crushes, love, jealousy, and fatherhood -- we take for granted. As each story loops into others, Jeffrey Brown shows how the smallest andseemingly most insignificant parts of everyday life can end up becoming the most meaningful. Brown's very first full-length autobiographical book in several years, Little Things is also his most impressive, touching, and true.
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"Little Things" is cartoonist Jeffrey Brown's "major label debut" with Touchstone Books, following years of self-publishing and independent publishing through Drawn & Quarterly press. Unfortunately, it feels like he has run out of gas as far as memoir/autobiographical material goes. This book is his longest yet, at almost 350 pages--but not much happens. And that which does happen is maddeningly out-of-order.
The illustrations are as whimsical as always, but that's not enough to carry a full book in which Brown does little more than draw in coffee shops, hike outdoors, draw comics, and, occasionally, pine after girls. If his relationship material has been completely exhausted, could it be time to turn to fiction? If there's any magic in the mundane, as the back cover suggests, I couldn't find it here. If you are new to Jeffrey Brown, I would recommend picking up any one of his books previous to "Little Things"--this book is for completists only.
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All I had read of Jeffrey Brown's before this was Mini-Sulk and some work he did for Drawn & Quarterly Showcase - all of which is pretty dang funny: little two page chunks of anecdotes, usually about relationships. He has moved away from both areas he's been comfortable with in this pretty large book (for him). Not too much is spent on his relationships (often leaving them to one panel in a larger story) and most of the stories are the size of his previous books. Alot of them tend to focus on , as the title suggest, little things...meeting friends for a hike, getting a cat, having surgery, and so on. It's fun, but he still has this tendency to just end stuff abruptly. I suppose most of the stories really can't have any big revelations but, there ya go.
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