{"product_id":"jimmy-corrigan-the-smartest-kid-on-earth-9780375714542","title":"Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first book from the Chicago author of the \"stunning\" \u003ci\u003eBuilding Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally impaired \"everyman,\" who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This haunting and unshakable book will change the way you look at your world.\" --\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There's no writer alive whose work I love more than Chris Ware.\" --Zadie Smith, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSwing Time\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cut-outs, and a brief apology, all of which concrete to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged as the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and seven-year-old daughter. \u003ci\u003eBuilding Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, released in 2012, received 4 Eisner Awards, including Best Graphic Album, in 2013. His \u003ci\u003eJimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the \"100 Best Books of the Decade\" by \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London) in 2009. An irregular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker (\u003c\/i\u003ewhere some of the pages of this book first appeared) his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park, Illinois.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pantheon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614724854034,"sku":"9780375714542","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5f67c68d-38c1-4324-9824-fcc832722f0a.jpg?v=1732458626","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jimmy-corrigan-the-smartest-kid-on-earth-9780375714542","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}