Not entirely pleasant, but undeniably beautiful. This is a visually magnificent piece of work. Everything about its production only serves to enhance the story itself, which is both unflinching and humble, elegant and crude, outright and delicate. Short, pithy, redolent - like a woodcut carving in words, showing more than the simple lines. And like most woodcuts, the subject is something I'm not entirely sure I wanted to spend that long and that much art upon, but its power cannot be denied. ( )