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A Stick Of Green Candy (Four Corners Familiars)

3.8/5 ( ratings)

For this fifth volume in the Four Corners Familiars series, in which artists respond to literary classics, the young San Francisco artist Colter Jacobsen has chosen four absolute masterpieces of short fiction: Jane Bowles' "A Stick of Green Candy" and "Camp Cataract," and Denton Welch's "The Trout Stream" and "Narcissus Bay." Bowles and Welch share a perceptiveness and surgical lucidity for moods and surfaces that William Burroughs, a fan of both authors, remarked upon: "both writers are masters of the unforgettable phrase that no one else could have written... each has a very special way of seeing things." Jacobsen, who has previously collaborated with the writers Bill Berkson and Kevin Killian, and whose paired drawings--one drawn from life, the other from memory--demonstrate a flair and desire for response and collaboration, adds to these stories his marginalia, chapter headings and paired drawings, making of the whole an enticing mesh of sympathies.

Language: English

Pages: 145

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Four Corners Books

Release: March 31, 2010

ISBN: 0956192807

ISBN 13: 9780956192806

A Stick Of Green Candy (Four Corners Familiars)

3.8/5 ( ratings)

For this fifth volume in the Four Corners Familiars series, in which artists respond to literary classics, the young San Francisco artist Colter Jacobsen has chosen four absolute masterpieces of short fiction: Jane Bowles' "A Stick of Green Candy" and "Camp Cataract," and Denton Welch's "The Trout Stream" and "Narcissus Bay." Bowles and Welch share a perceptiveness and surgical lucidity for moods and surfaces that William Burroughs, a fan of both authors, remarked upon: "both writers are masters of the unforgettable phrase that no one else could have written... each has a very special way of seeing things." Jacobsen, who has previously collaborated with the writers Bill Berkson and Kevin Killian, and whose paired drawings--one drawn from life, the other from memory--demonstrate a flair and desire for response and collaboration, adds to these stories his marginalia, chapter headings and paired drawings, making of the whole an enticing mesh of sympathies.

Language: English

Pages: 145

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Four Corners Books

Release: March 31, 2010

ISBN: 0956192807

ISBN 13: 9780956192806

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