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Book

The rough pearl

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL MUTC TEEN (POW)

Publication Information

Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books Inc., [2020]

Physical Description

169 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm

Summary

"In this graphic novel, Adam Kline is an aspiring artist with bleak prospects, stuck in a thankless adjunct teaching gig and married to an ambitious woman tired of supporting his starry-eyed pipe dreams. Just as things seem to be looking up for hapless Adam, he begins to black out at random and awaken in a pitch-dark void surrounded by billions of probing eyes. When these uncanny visions appear in his real life, he starts to worry that he's losing his mind..." --

Notes

"The cover of this book includes glow-in-the-dark in. To fully enjoy the effect, expose the cover to light prior to entering a dark space" --Colophon.

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