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Experience a surreal descent into one man's psychosis in this haunting and chilling graphic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Roughneck and Sweet Tooth, "the Stephen King of comics" (Maclean's). A man wakes up alone in a strange room with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. The padlocked doors and barren lobby reinforce the strangeness of this place. This is--as he reads from an old-fashioned keychain beside his bed--the Edgewater Hotel. Even worse, something ominous seems to be lurking in one of the rooms. But when he meets a young companion--the only other soul in this vast, enveloping emptiness--his new friend begs him not to unlock the door. There must be something behind it...but what? A haunted hotel on the edge of reality, an endless bridge spanning an infinite ocean, and a man and a boy looking for a way out. This is the setting for a boundary-pushing, genre-defying new work of fiction by one of comics' master storytellers.… (mehr)
I love Jeff Lemire. No matter what genre he’s writing in, the stories he pens are imaginative and deeply moving, and this one is no different.
It’s amazing to me how much can be communicated through so little. The dialogue is sparse but often loaded with meaning (think Raymon Carver) and the pages rely heavily on imagery and symbolism. It’s an intimate portrait of loss, frailty, and despair told only in 100 pages - but it speaks volumes. I’m also obsessed with Lemire’s minimalist/surrealist sketch work (swipe for examples).
Like some of the best stories, this one is hard to put into words. It’s truly an experience, and to fully understand you just need to read it for yourself. Do it, but beware the Frog King. ( )
It was interesting but it was easy to catch the twist which might've been the point. I really liked the metaphor of him losing his memories (dementia maybe?) with the raining of photographs and drawings. ( )
Beautifully illustrated, haunting. Lemire's common themes (hallucinatory revisiting of the lost past, filled with regret), in a very very quick read. ( )
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Experience a surreal descent into one man's psychosis in this haunting and chilling graphic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Roughneck and Sweet Tooth, "the Stephen King of comics" (Maclean's). A man wakes up alone in a strange room with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. The padlocked doors and barren lobby reinforce the strangeness of this place. This is--as he reads from an old-fashioned keychain beside his bed--the Edgewater Hotel. Even worse, something ominous seems to be lurking in one of the rooms. But when he meets a young companion--the only other soul in this vast, enveloping emptiness--his new friend begs him not to unlock the door. There must be something behind it...but what? A haunted hotel on the edge of reality, an endless bridge spanning an infinite ocean, and a man and a boy looking for a way out. This is the setting for a boundary-pushing, genre-defying new work of fiction by one of comics' master storytellers.
It’s amazing to me how much can be communicated through so little. The dialogue is sparse but often loaded with meaning (think Raymon Carver) and the pages rely heavily on imagery and symbolism. It’s an intimate portrait of loss, frailty, and despair told only in 100 pages - but it speaks volumes. I’m also obsessed with Lemire’s minimalist/surrealist sketch work (swipe for examples).
Like some of the best stories, this one is hard to put into words. It’s truly an experience, and to fully understand you just need to read it for yourself. Do it, but beware the Frog King. ( )