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Memoirs of a man in pajamas / Paco Roca ; translated by Andrea Rosenberg.
Van Pelt Library PN6777.R59 M4613 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roca, Paco (Comic book artist), author, illustrator.
- Standardized Title:
- Memorias de un hombre en pijama. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Roca, Paco (Comic book artist)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Roca, Paco.
- Roca, Paco (Comic book artist).
- Cartoonists--Spain--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Cartoonists.
- Cartoonists--Spain--Biography.
- Spain.
- Genre:
- Autobiographical comics.
- Biographies.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels.
- Humorous comics.
- Slice-of-life comics.
- Physical Description:
- 213 pages : color illustrations ; 28 x 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Fantagraphics Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the Spanish.
- Summary:
- "At 40, cartoonist Paco Roca has finally achieved his childhood dream -- to spend all day at home in his pajamas! However, his blissful, loungewear-clad reverie is beset with a host of mundane problems: He dreads small talk with 'the world's biggest bore,' but his excuses and white lies are finally catching up with him. When good friends breaks up, taking either side could lead to social disaster. The simple mission to change his train ticket descends into an impossibly complicated, Kafkaesque affair. And worst of all, his partner keeps hanging the toilet paper roll the wrong way! In the vein of sitcoms like Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Roca's comic vignettes brilliantly satirize the pesky pitfalls of modern-day life. Like most of us, Roca's alter ego just wants to be liked and to do the right thing, but finds that through crippling indecision, cowardly behavior, and the absurd machinations of the universe, he is usually thwarted. The ensuing situations he finds himself embroiled in are as hilarious as they are often painfully relatable"--Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9781683967576
- 1683967577
- OCLC:
- 1348923695
- Publisher Number:
- 99994725634
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