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Big Kids: Teenaged Misfits and Adolescent Rabble-Rousing Take Center Stage in This Dark Coming of Age Tale
Michael Deforge
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Description for Big Kids: Teenaged Misfits and Adolescent Rabble-Rousing Take Center Stage in This Dark Coming of Age Tale
Hardback. Eerie and perfectly paced, Michael DeForge's Big Kids muses on the complicated, and often contradictory, feelings people struggle with in adolescence, the choices we make to fit in, and the ways we survive times of change. Num Pages: 120 pages, colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 114. .
Big Kids is simultaneously Michael DeForge's most straightforward narrative and his most complex work to date. It follows a troubled teenage boy through the transformative years of high school, as he redefines his friends, his interests, and his life path. When the boy's uncle, a police officer, gets kicked out of the family's basement apartment and transferred to the countryside, April moves in. She's a college student: mysterious and cool, she quickly takes a shine to the boy. The boy's own interests quickly fade away: he stops engaging in casual sex, taking drugs, and testing the limits of socially acceptable ... Read more
Big Kids is simultaneously Michael DeForge's most straightforward narrative and his most complex work to date. It follows a troubled teenage boy through the transformative years of high school, as he redefines his friends, his interests, and his life path. When the boy's uncle, a police officer, gets kicked out of the family's basement apartment and transferred to the countryside, April moves in. She's a college student: mysterious and cool, she quickly takes a shine to the boy. The boy's own interests quickly fade away: he stops engaging in casual sex, taking drugs, and testing the limits of socially acceptable ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly Canada
Number of pages
120
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781770462243
SKU
V9781770462243
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About Michael Deforge
Michael DeForge was born in 1987 and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. His one-person anthology series Lose has received great critical and commercial success, having been nominated for, or won, every major comics award including the Ignatz and Eisner awards. His illustrations have been published in the New York Times and Bloomberg View; his comics have appeared in the Believer, ... Read more
Reviews for Big Kids: Teenaged Misfits and Adolescent Rabble-Rousing Take Center Stage in This Dark Coming of Age Tale
Big Kids is a bildungsroman of sorts; the story of a troubled teenage boy navigating the transformative years of high school, redefining his friends, interests, and life path. Anybody with a passing familiarity with DeForge's unsettling, vividly beautiful comics will know that this is a deceptively simple summation.
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