**From the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth comes
one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time: 14 distinctively
discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. - "One
of the most important pieces of art I have ever experienced." --The New
Republic
**
With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes
it's reassuring--perhaps even necessary--to have something to hold on
to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser will find a
fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to address virtually
any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the corrosive sarcasm of
youth to the sickening earnestness of maturity--while discovering a
protagonist wondering if she'll ever move from the rented close quarters
of lonely young adulthood to the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage.
Whether you're feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else,
this book is sure to sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted,
opportunities missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the
middle- and upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in
somewhat damaged form during REM sleep).
A pictographic listing of all 14 items (260 pages total) appears on the
back, with suggestions made as to appropriate places to set down, forget
or completely lose any number of its contents within the walls of an
average well-appointed home. As seen in the pages of The New Yorker, The
New York Times and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Building Stories
collects a decade's worth of work, with dozens of
"never-before-published" pages (i.e., those deemed too obtuse, filthy or
just plain incoherent to offer to a respectable periodical).