Cloud Hotel
Author(s): Julian Hanshaw
Graphic Novel | Fiction Reductions | Children's book sale | Young Adult
Description: Remco knows he is special. He was chosen. God took a shine to him, after a bright light in a clear northern sky brought Remco to the incredible Cloud Hotel, a wondrous place that he never wants to leave. But Remco has outstayed his welcome... and it's time to check out. LA Times Book Prize finalist Julian Hanshaw (Tim Ginger) returns with a new feast of visual imagination and emotional intensity that will haunt readers' dreams long after the book is closed.
Author Biography: Julian Hanshaw won the Observer/Comica short story award in 2008 for "Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms." His graphic novel works include the Prix-Europa-winning The Art of Pho and I'm Never Coming Back. Julian also contributed to the multi-award-winning Hoax- Psychosis Blues. His most recent graphic novel, Tim Ginger, was shortlisted for the British Comic Award and the LA Times Book Prize. He lives on the south coast of the UK with his wife, Sarah, and spends too much time thinking about cricket.
Promotional Information: A haunting, mind-bending new graphic novel from LA Times Book Prize finalist Julian Hanshaw.
Product Information
"Crisp of line and hypnotically peculiar, Hanshaw deftly suspends us between dream and reality, as good comics do. As in life, the harder we look the more we see, and the stranger things invariably become." — Shaun Tan
"[Cloud Hotel's] panel layouts and richly colored mise-en-scène are impressively imaginative. As if Philip K. Dick wrote a teen graphic novel." — Publishers Weekly
Praise for Julian Hanshaw:
"Understated, wryly observed, and welcome." — Dave McKean
"Exquisitely realized. Deeply rewarding." — Booklist (starred review)
"Awe-inspiring... Emotive subject matter tackled with grace and serenity." — Broken Frontier
"One of the best written pieces of graphic novel fiction I have read this year." — Page 45
General Fields
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- : Top Shelf Productions
- : Top Shelf Productions
- : 0.812
- : 01 May 2018
- : ---length:- '9'width:- '6.5'units:- Inches
- : 01 August 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Julian Hanshaw
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 741.5
- : 160
