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The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo
Joe Sacco
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Description for The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo
paperback. Award-winning comix-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Num Pages: 112 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; AKLC; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 196 x 10. Weight in Grams: 384. From the library of Michel Déon. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the visiting journalist. Sacco gradually realized that Neven's own story - a microcosm of the Balkan conflict itself - might be the most compelling of all. Through Neven, Sacco tells the story of the warlords and gangsters who ran the country during the war, but all the time he - and the reader - never ... Read more
In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the visiting journalist. Sacco gradually realized that Neven's own story - a microcosm of the Balkan conflict itself - might be the most compelling of all. Through Neven, Sacco tells the story of the warlords and gangsters who ran the country during the war, but all the time he - and the reader - never ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224073820
SKU
KMK0021789
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco was born in Malta. He won an American Book Award for Palestine. He is also the author of Safe Area Gorazde and Notes From a Defeatist.
Reviews for The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo
This tightly wound, humane and suspenseful non-fiction graphic novella employs visual devices from the best traditions of film noir. Sacco's finely wrought, expressively rendered black and white drawings perfectly capture the emotional character of Sarajevo and the people who struggle to live there. This superlative and important story is easily one of the best comics non-fiction works of the year ... Read more