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"SLOTH is a welcome head trip."—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY"Full of David Lynch-like inversions, haunted lemon orchards and indie rock bands, SLOTH is a tale you read once and immediately read again."—US NEWS & WORLD REPORTEisner Award-winning creator Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets) dazzles with this dark coming-of-age tale available for the first time in trade paperback. One year after slipping into a coma, teenager Miguel Torres awakens to a new world where everything has literally slowed down. Hernandez deftly crafts a hypnotic tale Playboy calls "a slyly magical tale of troubled teens in suburbia."
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About the Author:
Gilbert Hernandez lives in Las Vegas, NV, with his wife and daughter. He is co-creator of the long-running, award-winning, and critically acclaimed series Love and Rockets. His books include Chance In Hell, The Troublemakers, Lubo, Palomar, Speak of the Devil, Sloth, The High Soft Lisp, Yeah!, and many books in the Love and Rockets series.
From Publishers Weekly:
Starred Review. The much heralded Love & Rockets cartoonist turns in his first original graphic novel and it showcases a creator still making vital work after two decades. The story is of young people too creative, too smart and too passionate for the constraints of suburbia. Miguel Serra wakes up from a yearlong coma, slower physically but not mentally. He is literally out of step with the rest of the world, a perfectly disaffected youth. Miguel, his friend Romeo and girlfriend Lita use rock 'n' roll, urban legends and sex to feel alive. It leads to a love triangle that complicates things nicely. Hernandez takes a big gamble in the middle of the book by having everyone change roles in the story. It's unclear at first whether it pays off, but eventually the reader sees the characters from different angles, making the humanity in the story stronger as our sympathies are challenged. Hernandez has been compared to García Márquez, and uses heavy symbolism, in this case the image of a lemon orchard, which represents both the unconscious and how plant life makes the rest of the world look artificial. Sloth packs a lot of emotion and complicated storytelling into an unusual tale. (July)
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- PublisherVertigo
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 140120368X
- ISBN 13 9781401203689
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
- IllustratorHernandez Gilbert
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