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Airport love theme / Hamishi Farah.

Van Pelt Library PN6728.F37 A57 2020
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Farah, Hamishi, author, artist.
Contributor:
Book Works (Organization), publisher.
Series:
Contact (Book Works)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Border security--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
Border security.
United States.
Genre:
Graphic novels.
Comics (Graphic works)
Physical Description:
125 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
Place of Publication:
London : Book Works, [2020]
Summary:
"Airport Love Theme is a graphic novel set on two airplanes and in detention at Los Angeles LAX airport, recalling the absurd exchanges - about love and sex, celebrity, food and family - that once took place between US border security officers, an artist held and interrogated under suspicion while travelling to an art fair, and fellow passenger-detainees. Farah's debut book explores the promise of mobility offered by the international art world, and how that promise can fail outrageously. Suspense and disorientation play out in subtle ways, encouraging self-questioning on the part of readers given joint responsibility for making sense of troubling events. The novel's structure is linear, but also echoes the tendency of traumatic experience to produce indelible scenes that repeat and return"--Publisher's website.
Notes:
Published in an edition of 1,000.
ISBN:
9781912570003
1912570009
OCLC:
1090180154
Publisher Number:
99985014086

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