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City of Clowns Hardcover - 2015

by Alarc�n, Daniel; Alvarado, Sheila


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A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcn's story City of Clowns. From the author of The King Is Always Above the People, which was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Oscar "Chino" Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father's other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father's murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into their haunting, fantastical world. This remarkably affecting story by Daniel Alarcn was included in his acclaimed first book, War by Candlelight, and now, in collaboration with artist Sheila Alvarado, it takes on a new, thrilling form. This graphic novel, with its short punches of action and images, its stark contrasts between light and dark, truth and fiction, perfectly corresponds to the tone of Chino's story. With the city of Lima as a character, and the bold visual language from the story, City of Clowns is moving, menacing, and brilliantly vivid.

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  • Title City of Clowns
  • Author Alarc�n, Daniel; Alvarado, Sheila
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Pages 144
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Riverhead Books, New York City, NY
  • Date 2015-11
  • ISBN 9781594633331
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/15/2015, Page 33
  • Entertainment Weekly, 11/13/2015, Page 63
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 06/15/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/15/2015, Page 60

About the author

Daniel Alarcn is the author of the National Book Award finalist story collection The King Is Always Above the People, the novel At Night We Walk in Circles, which was a finalist for the 2014 PEN-Faulkner Award, as well as the story collection War by Candlelight and the novel Lost City Radio. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, n+1, and Harpers, and in 2010, he was named one of the New Yorker's "20 under 40." He is Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante, and teaches at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York. Sheila Alvarado is an artist, illustrator, and author. She lives in Lima, Peru.

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