{"product_id":"spaniel-rage-9781770462564","title":"Spaniel Rage","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vanessa Davis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I love [Davis's] free-form drawing . . . She just has a funny, truthful voice.\" --Audrey Niffenegger\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVanessa Davis's autobiography, more observational than confessional, delighted readers ten years ago when she first began telling stories about her life in New York as a young single Jewish woman. \u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage \u003c\/i\u003eis filled with frank and immediate pencil-drawn accounts of dating woes, misunderstandings between her and her mother, and conversations with friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer keen observation of careless words spoken casually is refreshingly honest, yet never condemning. Unabashedly, Davis offers up gently self-deprecating anecdotes about her anxieties and wry truths about the contradictions of life in the big city. These comics are sexy, funny, lonely, beautiful, spare, and very smart--the finest work from a natural storyteller. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Davis creates] structurally sound, stylistically individual images that also manage to seem totally casual and spur-of-the-moment. The cliché \"she makes it look so easy\" is acutely appropriate for Vanessa and her work.\"--\u003ci\u003eRookie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The frank, personal specificity of [\u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage\u003c\/i\u003e] keeps you gripped.\"--\u003ci\u003eVulture, 8 Comics You Need To Read\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"...a warm, familiar voice ... \u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage\u003c\/i\u003e holds an amazing freshness 12 years after it was published. It certainly deserves Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly's February reissue.\"--\u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage\u003c\/i\u003e collects] snapshots of her life that feel both utterly familiar and totally weird ... a pleasant delve into young life in the city.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Often funny, often tinged with loss, Davis chronicles a life page by page [and] touches on the anxieties of the internet age.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Comics Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This work [has] the strange power of making me feel like Davis broke into my apartment and scribbled her life into my personal notebook, just for me.\"--\u003ci\u003eBroken Pencil\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An honest, unflinching set of loose cartoons... at its core, the commonalities of the cartoons in \u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage\u003c\/i\u003e reflect the quirks of daily life itself.\"--\u003ci\u003eBookriot, 5 Graphic Novels To Watch In For February\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If you dig slice-of-life graphic novels, then you'll want to pick up \u003ci\u003eSpaniel Rage\u003c\/i\u003e from Vanessa Davis ... the graphic-novel equivalent of a Seinfeld episode about twentysomethings.\"--\u003ci\u003eLondon Free Pres\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003es\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45354953834647,"sku":"9781770462564","price":1225.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781770462564.webp?v=1767670295","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/spaniel-rage-9781770462564","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}