Beverly
Paperback 136 pages English January 26, 2016
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Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs.Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak. A group of teenagers pick up trash on the side of the highway--flirting, preening, and ignoring a potentially violent loner in their midst. A college student brings her sort-of boyfriend to a disastrous house party with her high-school acquaintances. A young woman experiences a traumatic incident at the pizza shop where she works and the fallout reveals the racial tensions simmering below the surface. Again and again, the civilized façade of Drnaso's pitch-perfect surburban sprawl and pasty Midwestern protagonists cracks in the face of violence and quiet brutality. Drnaso's bleak social satire in Beverly reveals a brilliant command of the social milieu of twenty-first-century existence, echoing the black comic work of Todd Solondz, Sam Lipsyte, and Daniel Clowes. Precisely and hauntingly recounted, each chapter of Beverly reveals something new--and yet familiar--about the world in which we live.
- Author:
- Nick Drnaso
- Publisher:
- Drawn and Quarterly
- Publication Date:
- January 26, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 136 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1770462252
- ISBN-13:
- 9781770462250