In The River at Night, Kevin Huizenga delves deep into
consciousness. What begins as a simple, distracted conversation
between husband and wife, Glenn and Wendy Ganges him reading a
library book and her working on her computer becomes an exploration
of being and the passage of time. As they head to bed, Wendy
exhausted by a fussy editor and Glenn energized by his reading and
no small amount of caffeine, the story begins to fracture. The
River at Night flashes back, first to satirize the dot-com boom of
the late 1990s and then to examine the camaraderie of playing
first-person shooter video games with work colleagues. Huizenga
shifts focus to suggest ways to fall asleep as Glenn ponders what
the passage of time feels like to geologists or productivity gurus.
The story explores the simple pleasures of a marriage, like lying
awake in bed next to a slumbering lover, along with the less
cherished moments of disappointment or inadvertent betrayal of
trust. Huizenga uses the cartoon medium like a symphony,
establishing rhythms and introducing themes that he returns to,
adding and subtracting events and thoughts, stretching and
compressing time. A walk to the library becomes a meditation on how
we understand time, as Huizenga shows the breadth of the comics
medium in surprising ways. The River at Night is a modern formalist
masterpiece as empathetic, inventive, and funny as anything ever
written.
General
Imprint: |
Drawn & Quarterly
|
Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
September 2019 |
Authors: |
Kevin Huizenga
|
Dimensions: |
254 x 197 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
|
Pages: |
216 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-77046-374-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Special features >
Graphic novels
|
LSN: |
1-77046-374-7 |
Barcode: |
9781770463745 |
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