Tales from Outer Suburbia
by Tan, Shaun
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1840113138
- ISBN 13
- 9781840113136
- Seller
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Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, England: Templar, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.
Synopsis
Shaun Tan has been illustrating young adult fiction and picture books for more than ten years. His brilliant wordless book, The Arrival , won The CBCA Picture Book of the Year, The NSW Premier’s Book of the Year, and the Community Relations Commission Award, and received a Special Mention at the 2007 Bologna Ragazzi Awards. He lives in Australia.
Reviews
On Dec 29 2018, a reader said:
Tales from Outer Suburbia is a graphic novel for young readers by award-winning Australian illustrator and author, Shaun Tan. There are fifteen tales, each illustrated with Tan's wonderfully evocative artwork. The endpapers are filled with intricate drawings; the contents page is in the form of an envelope whose stamps list the tales, their denomination denoting the page number, whose addressee forms the dedication, whose sticker credits the publisher, all so clever! The second-last page is basically an acknowledgements page, but in the form of a library sticker.
The tales are many and varied: some quirky and strange, some funny, some very moving. The illustrations are, of course, wonderful and careful examination of each page reveals many more items than are apparent at first glance. Tan has a talent for descriptive prose too: "The newly planted fruit trees died in the sandy soil of the too-bright backyard and were left like grave-markers under the slack laundry lines, a small cemetery of disappointment."
Different tales are likely to appeal to different readers, but favourites are likely to be "no other country" (a mysterious inner courtyard), "alert but not alarmed" (backyard ICBMs) and "our expedition" (a trek to the limits of Dad's street directory). Marvellous!!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bay Used Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051522
- Title
- Tales from Outer Suburbia
- Author
- Tan, Shaun
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1840113138
- ISBN 13
- 9781840113136
- Publisher
- Templar
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 2008
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.