false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg 43560 2 &#8220;Pekar has proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life.&#8221;<br>&#8211;The New York Times<br><br>For years Heather Roberson, a passionate peace activist, has argued that war can always be avoided. But she has repeatedly faced counterarguments that fighting is an inescapable consequence of world conflicts. Indeed, Heather finds proving her point to be a little tricky without examples to bolster her case. So she does something a little crazy: She sets out for far-off Macedonia, a landlocked country north of Greece and west of Bulgaria, to explore a region that has edged&#8211;repeatedly&#8211;close to the brink of violence, only to refrain. <br><br>In the process&#8211;and as vividly portrayed by the talented duo of Harvey Pekar and Ed Piskor&#8211;Heather is tangled in red tape, ripped off by cabdrivers and hotel clerks, hit on by creepy guys, secretly photographed, and mistaken for a spy. She also creates unlikely friendships, learns that getting lost means seeing something new, and makes some startling discoveries. War is hell and peace is difficult&#8211;but conflict is always necessary. <br><br>&#8220;Harvey Pekar wrestles the kind of things most comic book heroes wouldn&#8217;t touch with a laser blaster.&#8221;<br>&#8211;Cleveland Plain Dealer<br><b><br></b>&#8220;A visit with Harvey Pekar . . . will cause you to reexamine your own life . . . just as the greatest literature will.&#8221;<br>&#8211;The Austin Chronicle<br><b><br></b>&#8220;Pekar lets all of life flood into his panels: the humdrum and the heroic, the gritty and the grand.&#8221;<br>&#8211;The New York Times Book Review 42984 26 6 2007 Macedonia total:55|5:6|4:17|3:25|2:7|1:0| 55 187 87 15 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 4 0 false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 11:11:26 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 11:13:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 2 0 false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 01 23:12:20 -0800 2009 Tue May 26 20:12:57 -0700 2009 Macedonia, with student of peace and conflict studies at the University of California, Heather Robeson. The book mainly focuses on Robeson's research into the events in Macedonia after the Kosovo conflict in the late nineties. It involved Alb...more...]]> 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 02 23:57:42 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 23:59:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 3 0 false Fri Mar 20 14:10:59 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 14:15:06 -0700 2009
That said, I'm torn on this book. It is heavy handedly didactic, something which is generally anathema to me, but I found myself exceedingly glad I read it. The recent political developments in Macedonia are something I was ...more...]]> 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 4 0 false Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 10:21:57 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 20:06:23 -0800 2008
I mainly rea...more...]]> 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 4 0 false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 11:06:46 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 11:08:20 -0700 2009 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 2 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 04:24:22 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 06:14:39 -0700 2007 Joe Sacco's work such as Safe Area Gorazde. Unfortunately, it doesn't achieve the same balance between the narrator's fish-out-of-water-story and the story of the Macedonians being inter...more...]]> 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 3 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 16:08:10 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 20:12:11 -0700 2007
The choice to frame all of the information through the eyes of the traveling student, Heather Roberson, is at times frus...more...]]> 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 3 0 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 08:00:25 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 08:04:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 4 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 06:14:19 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 06:16:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 2 0 false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 06:38:15 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 19:26:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 3 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 02 05:41:24 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 05:46:02 -0800 2008 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 4 0 false Mon Jul 14 16:17:50 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 16:19:36 -0700 2008 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 3 0 false Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 09:54:10 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 19:08:19 -0700 2008 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 4 0 false Wed May 28 10:15:29 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 10:16:59 -0700 2008 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 0 0 false Fri Dec 04 19:12:21 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 19:12:21 -0800 2009 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 0 0 false Thu Dec 03 10:45:55 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 10:45:55 -0800 2009 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 0 0 false Sun Nov 15 20:21:30 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 20:21:30 -0800 2009 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 3 0 false Fri Nov 06 10:51:57 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 10:51:57 -0800 2009 43560 0345498992 9780345498991 55 15 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129111m/43560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43560.Macedonia 0 0 false Tue Nov 03 10:22:36 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 10:22:36 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=43560