Building Stories

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Graphic Novels, Manga & Comics, Graphic Novels & Graphic Non-Fiction

Chris Ware (author)

Hardback Published on: 04/10/2012

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Building Stories

Chris Ware’s Building Stories is truly a thing of beauty. Packaged in an exquisitely illustrated box, Building Stories consists of fourteen different books... READ MORE

Erin Britton

Building Stories

All the best words in my vocabulary will fail to explain how amazing Chris Ware's Building Stories is. Unlike anything else you will choose to buy on this ... READ MORE

Ben Keenan at Bury St Edmunds Buttermarket

Synopsis

In Chris Ware's own words, 'Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple who wonder if they can bear each other's company for another minute; and finally an elderly woman who never married and is the building's landlady...'

The scope, the ambition, the artistry and emotional heft of this project are beyond anything even Chris Ware has achieved before.