false 575219 1179394 1897299249 9781897299241 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181678211m/1179394.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1179394.White_Rapids 3.55 62 The rise and fall of a Canadian town</div><div>
Award-winning Quebecois cartoonist Pascal Blanchet’s graphic novel is a compelling account of the rise and fall of the small northern town of White Rapids. In the first English translation of his work, Blanchet seamlessly blends fact and fiction as he weaves together the official history of the town and snapshots of the quotidian life of its residents. Founded in 1928 in an isolated region of Quebec forest, the town was conceived and constructed by the Shawinigan Water & Power Company to function as a fully equipped, self-contained living community for workers at the nearby dam and their families. Intended as an incentive to lure workers to the remote and inaccessible region, White Rapids provided its residents with all the luxuries of middle-class modern life in a pastoral setting—until the town was abruptly shut down in 1971, when the company changed hands.
</div><div>Blanchet’s unique, streamlined, retro-inspired aesthetic draws on art deco and fifties modernist design to vividly conjure up idyllic scenes of lazy summer days and crisp winter nights in White Rapids, transporting the reader back to a more innocent time.</div></div></div>]]> 575219 3.62 74 29 6087483 1897299664 9781897299661 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6087483.Baloney 4.00 12 A TALE IN THREE SYMPHONICACTS

Following White Rapids—named Best Comic of 2007 by The Onion—Pascal Blanchet brings us Baloney. Winds swirl and darkness reigns over a hamlet perched atop a craggy peak. Russian fatalism sets the tone as Blanchet orchestrates the tale of a village butcher, his disabled daughter, and her tutor in their doomed uprising against the swaggering Duke Shostakov, local governor and owner of the only heating company in town.

Curvy, retro lines and atmospheric, full-page panels evoke plaintive melodies, staccato passages, and soaring solos. In a graphic novel about love and despair that is also a homage to the music of the 1930s and ’40s, double bassists and trombonists lean into the frame, striking up a score that blends vaudeville with Kurt Weill and Russia’s great modern composers. Rendered in two-color, red-and-black chiaroscuro, light struggles to emerge from darkness and endurance makes way for heroism, all to no avail. Read Baloney as a reverie composed to the melodies of Prokofiev and Shostakovich: a beautiful conjuring of moods, or a call to arms against the exorbitant rates charged by utilities.</DIV>]]> 575219 3.62 74 29 2157361 2894851456 9782894851456 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2157361.La_fonte_des_neiges_Roman 0.0 0 575219 3.62 74 29 6740209 2922585484 9782922585483 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6740209-bologne 0.0 0 575219 3.62 74 29