Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three Panels
Lisa Brown
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Literature is long. Comics are short.
Does Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant about classics like Moby Dick, the Bhagavad Gita, Madame Bovary, and, um, Twilight? Bestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (The Airport Book; Baby, Mix Me a Drink) did her homework. Long Story Short offers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote, Lord of the Flies, and Jane Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Atonement, conveniently organized by subjects including "Love," "Sex," "Death," and "Female Trouble." Lisa Brown's Long Story Short is the perfect way to turn a traipse through what your English teacher called "the canon" into a frolic--or to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to appear bookish and well-read.Product Details
Price
$14.95
$13.90
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Publish Date
April 07, 2020
Pages
80
Dimensions
8.1 X 7.5 X 0.5 inches | 0.75 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781616205034
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About the Author
Lisa Brown is a New York Times bestselling illustrator, author, and cartoonist. Her work includes a slew of illustrated books including Goldfish Ghost by Lemony Snicket; The Airport Book; Picture the Dead with Adele Griffin; and Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert. For adults, Long Story Short is a collection of comic strips about classic novels. She lives in San Francisco and teaches in the illustration department of the California College of the Art.
Reviews
"You probably began this quarantine with dreams of rereading Moby-Dick or Persuasion. But if you're like me, you're finding it hard to concentrate on anything more than a tweet. Fortunately, Lisa Brown has just published Long Story Short, a witty collection of cartoon book reviews."
--Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A collection of three-panel comics that slyly condense hefty works of literature."
--Lucy Knisley, author and illustrator of Relish: My Life in the Kitchen "It's lighter than CliffsNotes and quite possibly more entertaining than the originals (the horror, the horror!)"
--Booklist
--Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A collection of three-panel comics that slyly condense hefty works of literature."
--Lucy Knisley, author and illustrator of Relish: My Life in the Kitchen "It's lighter than CliffsNotes and quite possibly more entertaining than the originals (the horror, the horror!)"
--Booklist
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