{"product_id":"9780375424335","title":"Building Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review,\u003c\/i\u003e Top 10 Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e2013 Lynd Ward Prize,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eBest Graphic Novel of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e4-time 2013 Eisner Award Winner,\u003c\/i\u003e including Best Publication, Best Writer\/Artist and Best Graphic Album\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e, Top 10 Books of 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Gift Guide, A+\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e, Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eAmazon, Best Books of the Year\/Comics\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoing Boing\u003c\/i\u003e, Best Graphic Novel of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e, Best of 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Best Fiction of 2012\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything you need to read the new graphic novel \u003ci\u003eBuilding Stories\u003c\/i\u003e: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it’s reassuring—perhaps even necessary—to have something to hold on to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser will find a fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to address virtually any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the corrosive sarcasm of youth to the sickening earnestness of maturity—while discovering a protagonist wondering if she’ll ever move from the rented close quarters of lonely young adulthood to the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage. Whether you’re feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book is sure to sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the middle- and upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in somewhat damaged form during REM sleep).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA pictographic listing of all 14 items (260 pages total) appears on the back, with suggestions made as to appropriate places to set down, forget or completely lose any number of its contents within the walls of an average well-appointed home. As seen in the pages of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney’s Quarterly Concern\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuilding Stories\u003c\/i\u003e collects a decade’s worth of work, with dozens of “never-before-published” pages (i.e., those deemed too obtuse, filthy or just plain incoherent to offer to a respectable periodical).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060277068016,"sku":"9780375424335","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375424335_p0.jpg?v=1763768197","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375424335","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}