The New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year Time Magazine Top Ten Fiction Book of
the Year Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year 2013 Lynd Ward Prize Best Graphic Novel of
the Year 4-time 2013 Eisner Award Winner including Best Publication Best Writer Artist and
Best Graphic Album Newsday Top 10 Books of 2012 Entertainment Weekly Gift Guide A+
Washington Post Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2012 Minneapolis Star Tribune Best Books of the Year
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Weekly Best Fiction of 2012 Everything you need to read the new graphic novel Building
Stories: 14 distinctively discrete Books Booklets Magazines Newspapers and Pamphlets.
With 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). A 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 The New Yorker The New York Times and McSweeney's Quarterly
Concern Building Stories 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).
