On a Sunbeam
Winner of the American Library Association's Alex Award
A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
David Small’s long-awaited graphic novel is a savage portrayal of male adolescence gone awry like no other work of recent fiction or film.
Wildly kaleidoscopic and furiously cinematic, Home After Dark is a literary tour-de-force that renders the brutality of adolescence in the so-called nostalgic 1950s, evoking such classics as The Lord of the Flies. Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed California in search of a dream. Suddenly forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of malicious boys who bully Russell for being “queer.†Rescued from his booze-swilling father by Wen and Jian Mah, a Chinese immigrant couple who long for a child, Russell betrays their generosity by running away with their restaurant’s proceeds. Told almost entirely through thousands of spliced images, once again “employ[ing] angled shots and silent montages worthy of Alfred Hitchcock†(Washington Post, on Stitches), Home After Dark becomes a new form of literature in this shocking graphic interpretation of cinema verité.| Country | USA |
| Author | David Small |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| EAN | 9780871403155 |
| Edition | 1 |
| IsAutographed | 0 |
| ISBN | 0871403153 |
| IsMemorabilia | 0 |
| Label | Liveright |
| Manufacturer | Liveright |
| MPN | 51506379 |
| NumberOfItems | 1 |
| NumberOfPages | 416 |
| PartNumber | 51506379 |
| PublicationDate | 2018-09-11 |
| Publisher | Liveright |
| ReleaseDate | 2018-09-11 |
| Studio | Liveright |