Uncomfortably happily
Yeon-sik Hong ; Hellen Jo
Uncomfortably happily /Yeon-sik Hong; Hellen Jo - Montréal, Québec : Drawn & Quarterly , 2017. - 572 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Inspired by Yeon-sik Hong's attempt to move to the country with his partner, Uncomfortably, Happily is the story of a young couple finding their way. Burdened by unmet comics deadlines and high rent, our narrator and his wife know they must make a change. Convinced the absence of traffic noise will ease his writer's block, our pair welcomes the idea of building a life from scratch. Deciding on a home atop an uninhabited mountain, they excitedly embrace the charms of their new rural existence. From tending to the land and attempting grocery runs through snow, to the complexities of fighting depression in seclusion, the move does not immediately prove to be the golden ticket they'd hoped for, and the silence of the mountain poses as much of an obstacle to output as the sirens of the city. Through it all, though, we see simple pleasures seep in and gain prominence over these commercial, and, often, comparatively trivial worries: the smell of the forest, the calming weight of enveloping snow, and the gratifica
9781770462601
Variety Books Publishers Distributors ;B-10,Street No-2,West Vinod Nagar New Delhi-1100092
Arts
Man-woman relationships--Hong, Yeon-sik, -- 1971- -- Comic books, strips, etc.
741.59519 HON
Uncomfortably happily /Yeon-sik Hong; Hellen Jo - Montréal, Québec : Drawn & Quarterly , 2017. - 572 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Inspired by Yeon-sik Hong's attempt to move to the country with his partner, Uncomfortably, Happily is the story of a young couple finding their way. Burdened by unmet comics deadlines and high rent, our narrator and his wife know they must make a change. Convinced the absence of traffic noise will ease his writer's block, our pair welcomes the idea of building a life from scratch. Deciding on a home atop an uninhabited mountain, they excitedly embrace the charms of their new rural existence. From tending to the land and attempting grocery runs through snow, to the complexities of fighting depression in seclusion, the move does not immediately prove to be the golden ticket they'd hoped for, and the silence of the mountain poses as much of an obstacle to output as the sirens of the city. Through it all, though, we see simple pleasures seep in and gain prominence over these commercial, and, often, comparatively trivial worries: the smell of the forest, the calming weight of enveloping snow, and the gratifica
9781770462601
Variety Books Publishers Distributors ;B-10,Street No-2,West Vinod Nagar New Delhi-1100092
Arts
Man-woman relationships--Hong, Yeon-sik, -- 1971- -- Comic books, strips, etc.
741.59519 HON
