City of Clowns, by Daniel Alarcón, Sheila Alvarado
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City of Clowns, by Daniel Alarcón, Sheila Alvarado
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A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcón’s story City of Clowns. Oscar “Chino” Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father’s other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father’s murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into their haunting, fantastical world. This remarkably affecting story by Daniel Alarcón was included in his acclaimed first book, War by Candlelight, and now, in collaboration with artist Sheila Alvarado, it takes on a new, thrilling form. This graphic novel, with its short punches of action and images, its stark contrasts between light and dark, truth and fiction, perfectly corresponds to the tone of Chino’s story. With the city of Lima as a character, and the bold visual language from the story, City of Clowns is moving, menacing, and brilliantly vivid.
City of Clowns, by Daniel Alarcón, Sheila Alvarado - Amazon Sales Rank: #621447 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Released on: 2015-11-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x .63" w x 6.31" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 144 pages
City of Clowns, by Daniel Alarcón, Sheila Alvarado Review Praise for City of Clowns"The tale takes on a breathtaking new dimension... Dynamic... [A] haunted atmosphere permeates every page. Alvarado renders Alarcón's source material in stark black and white, a scratchy yet refined style that's full of deep shadows and woodcut-like crosshatching. But it's her composition that truly brings City of Clowns to life. Rather than relying on a typical comic-book grid, Alvarado employs an inventive architecture of panels; some float in fields of negative space, while others are framed as bricks in a wall or sheets drying on a line. At certain points, she abandons panels altogether in favor of a more flowing, expressionist layout. Even her most daring experiments in form, though, succeed in thoughtfully conveying the pensive tone and subtext of Alarcón's meditation on guilt, regret, and forgiveness — and sometimes the gut-punching lack thereof." —NPR“Sheila Alvarado lends visual brilliance to Alarcon’s affecting tale.”—Entertainment Weekly"Fantastical."—Vanity Fair“The story of Chino and his father is told in equal parts narration and flashback, with simple, black and white illustrations by Sheila Alvarado that complement Alarcón's understated yet poignant prose . . . Alarcón writes in simple, conversational language that makes for an easy read while also evoking a sense of intimacy, that quality more often associated with memoirs than fiction. It's that very directness that Alarcón employs to great effect; reading City of Clowns I had the sense that I was being made privy to a story at once profoundly personal and also universal.”—Chicago Tribune“This graphic-novel adaptation strips the original short story to its essential elements but loses none of the rawness or tension. In stark black and white, Alvarado’s illustrations intensify the sentiment of the text through visual interpretations ranging from literal to purely fantastical. Frequently stunning in their clarity and economy, the illustrations give this already complex story an added layer of richness and depth. Darkly satisfying but with no easy endings.”—BooklistPraise for At Night We Walk in Circles “Wise and engaging . . . [a] layered, gorgeously nuanced work.” —The New York Times Book Review “Consistently compelling . . . Alarcón’s smoothly polished prose [is] flecked with wit and surprisingly epigraphic phrases . . . with lines that knock the wind out of you.” —The Washington Post “Outstanding . . . a work that creates a multilayered world and invites you to enter it.” —Los Angeles Times “Masterful . . . a sterling novel . . . brave, thoughtful and astute . . . elegant in its construction, it feels perfectly suited to bring Alarcón’s tremendous talent to a wider audience.” —The Miami Herald “Compelling . . . an intellectual puzzle.” —The Boston Globe
About the Author
Daniel Alarcón is the author of At Night We Walk in Circles, which was a finalist for the 2014 PEN-Faulkner Award, as well as the story collection War by Candlelight and the novel Lost City Radio. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, n+1, and Harpers, and in 2010, he was named one of the New Yorker's "20 under 40." He is Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante, and teaches at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York. Sheila Alvarado is an artist, illustrator, and author. She lives in Lima, Peru.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Noir fiction yet wildly captivating By Miss Barbara Full disclosure: I’m a 70+ year old woman who has recently learned to love graphics novels. City of Clowns by Daniel Alarcon did not disappoint. It can probably best be described as a South American Noir offering. It explores the life and mores of the street people of Lima, Peru, by exploring the boulevards where they live.The novel opens with young journalist, Chino, learning of the death of his scoundrel father Don Hugo. Don Hugo had moved his young family from a mining town in the mountains and settled them in the hustling, bustling city of Lima. Here he promptly abandoned them and takes a mistress, started a new family and continued his life of crime. The shocking revelation to Chino is that upon the rogue’s death, his mother moved in with the common-law wife and his half-brothers. What furthers startles him is that this blended family seems very happy with this arrangement.His newspaper assignment during this slice of chronology was for Chino to write a tabloid piece about the street clowns that roamed the city thoroughfares in their kitschy and lurid makeup. Chino assumes the role of a clown and is taken aback that he is suddenly invisible to those who know him. Author Alarcon writes of the city of Lima from the perspective of the negative influence – the used nail salesmen, the corruption of the politicos, the prostitutes and of course the clowns. All of this is woven around the main theme that is the death of the worthless patriarch.Illustrator Sheila Alvarado also presents her art in a negative perspective – the drawings are in black and white and in some cases the main focus is exhibited by an empty space filling the black line background. The stark black and white of the artwork along with the frustration you feel from the protagonist come together in a slice of life that is both depressing and wildly captivating.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Maybe We're All Clowns........., By Pop Bop Daniel Alarcon has made quite an impression as part of the new wave of South American born writers. (Granta's "Best Young American Novelist", the New Yorker's "20 under 40", and one of the rather precisely defined "39 under 39 Latin American Novelists".) "City of Clowns" appeared in the June 16, 2003 issue of the New Yorker as a Debut Fiction feature. It was included in Alarcon's first book, the 2005 story collection, "War By Candlelight". In 2010 the Spanish language version of this graphic novel came out; now we have Riverhead's English edition. The text of the graphic novel is identical to the original short story; what's new, of course, is the stunning illustrations by Peruvian artist Sheila Alvarado.While the story unfolds slowly, with a restrained air of melancholy, there's a lot going on under the surface of this memory piece. Oscar reflects on his childhood, his family, the violent instability of Lima, and especially on his gradual understanding of his complicated parents. At the same time Oscar tries to come to grips with his own aimlessness as he identifies with the marginal and dispossessed people, literally the clowns, he comes into contact with all over Peru. It is an elegant and understated conceit, and works beautifully.And this may be one of the few books you encounter that has been improved, deepened, and opened up by being given a graphic novel treatment. Alvarado doesn't just provide pretty pictures to illustrate the text. If anything, the text here serves the drawings. Sometimes spare, sometimes detailed, sometimes claustrophobic, sometimes expansive, and always witty and knowing, the illustrations here draw you into Oscar's mind and world in a fashion entirely distinct from how words work. When the two forms are combined, the result really is compelling and memorable.So, if your idea of a graphic novel is Classics Illustrated or the latest Spiderman outing, here's a treat for the eye and the mind. A very nice find.Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-52-days Adobe ecopy of this book in exchange for a candid review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four Stars By Amazon Customer Love the concept of a Graphically illustrated novel. I especially like the art work in this book.
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