Book tour. L'autore incontra il suo pubblico

A seemingly never-ending and failing book tour becomes a Kafkaesque nightmare of miscommunication, missteps, and muder accusations in Andi Watson’s charming graphic novel, aptly titled The Book Tour . We follow author G. H. Fretwell as he bumbles around from bookshop to bookshop leaving behind a trai Leggi tutto

Imagine the excitement and anticipation of a book tour. With a suitcase filled with his published book "Without K", author G.H. Fretwell disembarks from a train at a European style city. "Usually someone comes to meet me but there's no mention of it in my itinerary". A gentleman appears, takes the s Leggi tutto

A clueless author on a failing book tour pointlessly stumbles in and out of a serial killer plot in surrealistic and absurd fashion. Nothing to amuse or engage me here.

I loved this graphic novel about a writer going on a book tour and getting mixed up with a murder. I loved the illustrations and the absurdities he encountered.

Kafka’yı ve İngiliz kara mizahını seviyorsanız mutlaka okuyun. Çok sempatik görünen bir karakterle olay örgüsünden çizimine kadar okurunu bu kadar rahatsız etmeyi hedefleyen ve buna başarıyla ulaşan başka bir grafik roman -yakın zamanda- okumadım.

What a wonderfully frustrating book. Have you ever seen that bit by Eddie Izzard where he talks about British films being nothing but people walking into doors and being mildly befuddled. That's what this felt like but in a good way. I feel frustrated for the protagonist and how he's treated but als Leggi tutto

Dla autora nie ma niczego bardziej stresującego niż spotkanie autorskie, na które nikt nie przyszedł. Pisarze i pisarki opowiadają z zażenowaniem ale i lekko masochistyczną radością o takich sytuacjach. Przeważnie winę można zrzucić na promocję, pogodę termin, ale co gdy sytuacja się powtarza, a fre Leggi tutto