Finally back in print, by popular demand! Jason's first full-length work is an intriguing suite of silent short stories starring one of his trademark bird characters that ends up chronicling a life well lived. Sshhhh! was published before Jason created the distinctive "Jason" format of his later books, and Sshhhh! has now been redesigned to match them, with a brand new cover done just for this edition.
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“One gets the sense that … Jason, like poets writing sestinas, [is] testing [his] powers, letting the fierce constraints of the form reveal new possibilities, and it’s a wonderful thing to observe.” (The Guardian )
“…[U]tterly engrossing…. Themes such as fatherhood, love lost, living with death and depression are all featured in the ten parts that are Sshhhh!… [A] quite memorable book.” (Cosmic Treadmill )
“…[U]tterly engrossing…. Themes such as fatherhood, love lost, living with death and depression are all featured in the ten parts that are Sshhhh!… [A] quite memorable book.” (Cosmic Treadmill )
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Jason hails from Oslo, Norway, but currently resides in the south of France. The Harvey and Eisner Award-winner continues to create new books at a breakneck pace—his books include Werewolves of Montpellier; Low Moon; Pocket Full of Rain and Other Stories; Hey, Wait...; Sshhhh!; The Iron Wagon; What I Did (collecting the previous three volumes); I Killed Adolf Hitler; The Last Musketeer; The Left Bank Gang; Why Are You Doing This?; The Living and the Dead; Meow, Baby!; You Can't Get There from Here; Tell Me Something; and Almost Silent (collecting the previous four volumes) and (with Fabien Vehlmann) Isle of 100,000 Graves.
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Wow. A crow in a hat. Invisible coffee. A flute. Black and white. No words. Plenty of comedy. Plenty of akwardness. A reflection of pure human truth. Long moments of meloncholy and desperation sprinkled with just enough happiness to make it special. A crow you will feel for. Seriously.
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Love, Death, Crows, and no words,
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I picked this book up at the library becuase I had read "you can't get there from here" and liked it. This book does that one one better, by being entirely without words (as opposed to having the one scene with words). It tells 10 stories about a crow in a hat, from him getting a girlfriend, to getting a son to losing a girlfriend to dying to becoming invisible. It's amazing how powerful the stories can be without words, though characters sometimes appear dispassionate or phlegmatic, and sometimes it's hard to figure out what's going on. My favorite is the one where the croiw gets dumped and spends the rest of the story fantasizing about getting his girlfriend back. I know from personal experience how irritating and painful this process can be, and I'm sure many others will as well.
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A mixed read!,
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I bought this as it came highly recommended from a couple of sources. While some of the sources are nice, some are too simplistic or could do with a touch of brevity. There is perhaps nothing highly original or extremely striking about this collection. I would recommend reading a few stories before you decide to buy it!
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