Editions

Ghost World

  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape

  • ISBN: 9780224060882

  • Length: 80  Pages

  • Dimensions: 260mm x 8mm x 170mm

  • Weight: 243g

  • RRP: £10.99

Ghost World

Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the mundane thrills and hourly tragedies of a waning adolescence, as he follows a tenuous narrative thread through the fragmented lives of these two fully realised young women.

  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape

  • ISBN: 9780224060882

  • Length: 80  Pages

  • Dimensions: 260mm x 8mm x 170mm

  • Weight: 243g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • For once in a comic story, people are portrayed as they really talk and act. Clowes' pitch is uncannily accurate

    Washington Post

  • A hilarious, melancholy graphic novel

    Newsweek

  • Clowes' remarkable Ghost World might some day become a primer for the next generation of comics writers and artists... Masterfull

    Spin

  • Clowes spells out the realities of teenage angst as powerfully and authentically as Salinger did in Catcher in the Rye for an earlier generation

    Hartford Advocate

  • If ever there was a comic book story meant to be examined by non-comics fans, it's this, a classic in any medium

    The Onion

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About the Author

Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes was born in 1961. He is the creator of the comic books Eightball, Ghost World, which was made into a film by the director Terry Zwigoff, David Boring, and Ice Haven. His adaptation of his own Ghost World graphic novel for the screen earned him an Oscar nomination. A regular contributor to the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Best American Comics, he lives in California with his wife.

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