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David Boring Paperback - 2002

by Daniel Clowes

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From Academy Award nominee Clowes, author of "Ghost World, " comes this graphic novel--a fragmented slice of life and surrealistic fantasy about luckless, 19-year-old David Boring. Illustrations throughout, some in color.

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The "hilariously funny" graphic novel (Time) from the highly acclaimed author of Ghost World and Patience tells the story of David Boring, a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature, who is about to meet the girl of his dreams.

Things go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case, an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder) the primal nature of humankind will come inexorably to the fore.

"Boring finds love with a mysterious woman named Wanda, loses her and sort of finds her again. He also gets shot in the head (twice) and stranded on an island with his brutish family. Meanwhile, the world may or may not be ending soon." --Time

First line

TESTOR! HOW COULD YOU BETRAY ME?

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Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case, an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder) the primal nature of humandkind will come inexorably to the fore.
"Boring finds love with a mysterious woman named Wanda, loses her and sort of finds her again. He also gets shot in the head (twice) and stranded on an island with his brutish family. Meanwhile, the world may or may not be ending soon. And did I mention that much of this is hilariously funny?" -- "Time

"From the Hardcover edition.

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  • Title David Boring
  • Author Daniel Clowes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition GPH REP
  • Pages 136
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2002-09-24
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780375714528 / 0375714529
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.24 x 7.66 x 0.36 in (26.01 x 19.46 x 0.91 cm)
  • Category Graphic Novels
  • Library of Congress subjects Coming of age, Graphic novels
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00039194
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.597

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  • New York Times, 10/13/2002, Page 32

About the author

DANIEL CLOWES was born in Chicago in 1961. He is the creator of the comic book Eight-Ball, twenty-one issues of which have been published to date. His work has appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Vogue, Time, and Newsweek, among others. A feature film based on his 1998 book, Ghost World, starring Thora Birch, will be released in 2001 by MGM. He lives a childless, petless life in California with his beloved wife.

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