Description
A graphic novel for the twenty-first-century featuring tales of tortured souls and tormented passion -- brilliantly etched in words and striking visuals Some people fall in love, get married, and thrive in happy relationships -- and then there are others. From Israeli enfant terrible
Koren Shadmi comes a wickedly literate, darkly poetic, beautifully illustrated story collection that exposes with nightmarish clarity the sorrows of love and desire. Read in these pages such tales as:
Satisfaction Av.: The terrifying depths to which an unloved child once sank return to haunt her.
Radioactive Girlfriend: A student embarks on a torrid love affair with a young woman whose powerful allure is literally nuclear.
Pastry Paradise: A near-death experience takes away a woman's will to live and love…but awakens in her a dark and insatiable appetite.
Antoinette: A young man becomes obsessed with the girl of his dreams: a gorgeous -- but headless -- sylph. …and another six tales of alienation and angst.With brutal strokes and lacerating wit, Shadmi introduces a haunting gallery of lost souls that will both repel and captivate.
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