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Petty Theft
Pascal Girard
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Description for Petty Theft
Paperback. Petty Theft is a comedy of errors, a laugh-out-loud account of a man on a mission, and a heavily fictionalised memoir about the addictiveness of book-ownership. Num Pages: 104 pages, black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 212 x 11. Weight in Grams: 262.
Pascal's in a bad place. He's out of work, he and his long-time girlfriend have just broken up, and when he goes out for a run to ease his frazzled nerves, he falls and injures his back so badly, he's strictly forbidden from running. What's an endorphin-loving cartoonist to do? In a bid to distract himself, Pascal throws himself into his other pleasure: reading. And while at the bookstore one day, he spies a young woman picking up his own book. But then she darts out of the shop without paying. Bemused, he decides to figure out why she did ... Read more
Pascal's in a bad place. He's out of work, he and his long-time girlfriend have just broken up, and when he goes out for a run to ease his frazzled nerves, he falls and injures his back so badly, he's strictly forbidden from running. What's an endorphin-loving cartoonist to do? In a bid to distract himself, Pascal throws himself into his other pleasure: reading. And while at the bookstore one day, he spies a young woman picking up his own book. But then she darts out of the shop without paying. Bemused, he decides to figure out why she did ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781770461529
SKU
V9781770461529
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-21
About Pascal Girard
Pascal Girard was born in Jonquiere, Canada, in 1981. He began filling the margins of his notebooks with drawings from his first day of school. As he was never able to rid himself of this good habit, he naturally decided to make it his career. He is the award-winning author of Nicolas, Bigfoot, and Reunion.
Reviews for Petty Theft
Girard's self-mocking tale is entrancing, a self-inflicted catastrophe of terrible but irresistible hilarity.-Publishers Weekly Starred Review