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Patience is an indescribable psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially ‘Clowesian’, and utterly unique in the author’s body of work. This 180-page, full-colour story affords Clowes the opportunity to draw some of the most exuberant and breathtaking pages of his life, and to tell his most suspenseful, surprising and affecting story yet.The story opens in 2012, when Jack Barlow returns home to find Patience, his pregnant girlfriend, murdered. We meet him next in 2029, still haunted by the murder. He hears of a guy who thinks he’s invented a device that enables time travel. On the next page Jack is in 2006, watching Patience on her dates with boys. Is one of them the killer?

Additional information

Weight 0.754 kg
Dimensions 2.3 × 20 × 25.1 cm
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Format

Hardback
Language

Pages

180
Publisher

Year Published

2016-3-24
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1910702455
Review Quote

Patience is a new high watermark for the author, but also for the medium as a whole… Clowes is a singular voice, not just in comics but in American literature.
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No cartoonist alive devotes as much effort as Daniel Clowes to mapping the differences between the way people see themselves and the way they really are… Clowes’s work is characterized by such technical perfection and well-calibrated acidity… Clowes’s new book, Patience, is an enormous undertaking, not just in length but visually and in narrative scope.

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