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More copies of this ISBNOther titles in the Essex County series:The Country Nurse: Essex County Volume 3by Jeff Lemire
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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The Country Nurse and Other Rural Legends, Myths, and Half-Truths follows a day in the life of Anne Morgan, the peculiar farming communities traveling nurse. As Anne checks in on her favorite patients we are introduced to such rural legends as the boy called Jimmy-Elelphant-Ears, and the Essex Farmer's Boxing Club! The story delves deeper into Essex County's mythology and finally reveals how all three volumes stitch together, quilting a portrait of how loss and regret push and pull at the fabric of family in small town life. The Country Nurse is the final volume in the critically acclaimed Essex County trilogy of graphic novels set in a fictionalized version of Lemire's hometown in Ontario, Canada. Review:"The plot to the concluding volume of Lemire's trilogy of graphic novels about the residents of a quiet Canadian farming region is as low-key as they come: a nurse makes her rounds of her patients and learns that one of them has died; a few characters' secrets are revealed; and we see flashbacks to the 1917 tragedy whose consequences still hover over the community like the black crow that always seems to be flying overhead. Even more than the first two, this volume is about quietness and regret — more pages include silent panels than don't, and a crude superhero comic that an 11-year-old character draws is bluntly about his longing for familial connection. Things unspoken between family members, in fact, count for so much here that Lemire clarifies his plot by devoting a page to a family tree near the end of the book. But the power of Lemire's hushed, deliberately paced storytelling is in his black-and-white linework: raw, scratchy and sometimes minimalist, it conveys a lot with a handful of ragged lines. On one bravura page, a nun and a group of terrified children wade through a snowstorm into the distance; by its final panel, all we can see is a few tiny scribbles. (Sept.)" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"Jeff Lemire's Essex County trilogy, from Top Shelf, is a quiet, somber, haunting masterpiece...Lemire is writing about loneliness and regret, and I'm at a loss to explain how he manages to illustrate the devastating toll they takes on his characters even as he inspires his readers." Steve Duin, The Oregonian Review:"Volume 3 in the Essex County series establishes Jeff Lemire as one of the most elegant graphic novelists of our time. The complexity, the nuances, the pacing and the magic of this Canadian series elevates it to the status of Spiegelman's Maus and Craig Thompson's Blankets. The Country Nurse is a deeply important and unforgettable human story, one that can be returned to again and again for inspiration and strength. It also confirms Top Shelf Productions as a publisher of stories that move us to awe." Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed and Angel Wing Splash Pattern Review:"Lemire creates the kind of beauty that art can invent from sorrow....The Country Nurse is the closing chapter in a truly exceptional graphic novel trilogy." Leroy Douresseaux, Comic Book Bin What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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