商品簡介
"A dark, menacingly brilliant tale, tinged with the erotic." ? LA Times.
Spanning multiple decades and continents, this phantasmagorical epic is the result of a unique collaboration between an award-winning American author and the famous French illustrator of Alejandro Jodorowsky'sBouncer. Writer Jerome Charyn and artist Francois Boucq combine their talents to recount a surrealistic tale about the wife of a philandering magician and her struggles with terrifying demons, both real and imaginary.
Originally published as La Femme du magicien,The Magician's Wife was awarded the 1986 Prix Alfred (Angouleme) and the Grand Prix (Sierre). The English-language version has been out of print for three decades, during which time the graphic novel has developed a deep cult following ? this new edition promises to mesmerize a new generation of readers.
作者簡介
Called "a contemporary American Balzac" by New York Newsday, Jerome Charyn is the author of thirty novels, three memoirs, eight graphic novels, and more acclaimed works. Two of his memoirs were namedNew York Times Book of the Year, he has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1983. Charyn has also received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been named Commander of Arts and Letters (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Minister of Culture.
Francois Boucq is a French comic book artist, most known for creating the character Jerome Moucherot. He was awarded the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angouleme in 1998.
