{"product_id":"you-are-there-9781606992944","title":"You Are There","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jacques Tardi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Fantagraphics\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fantagraphics\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the earliest full-length, standalone graphic novels to be published in Europe, and certainly one of the best and most original, \u003cem\u003eIci Meme\u003c\/em\u003e was serialized in the adult French comics monthly (\u003cem\u003eA suivre\u003c\/em\u003e) in the early 1980s and then released in book form. A quarter of a century later, this dark, funny, consistently surprising masterpiece has finally been translated into English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An unexpected yet smoothly confident collaboration between the darkly cynical Jacques Tardi and the playful fantasist Jean-Claude Forest (of \u003cem\u003eBarbarella\u003c\/em\u003e fame), You Are There is set on a small island off the coast of France, where unscrupulous landowners have succeeded in overtaking the land from the last heir of a previously wealthy family. That heir, whose domain, in a Beckettian twist, is now reduced to the walls that border these patches of land he used to own, prowls the walls all day, eking out a living by collecting tolls at each gate. His seemingly hopeless struggle to recover his birthright becomes complicated as the government sees a way of using his plight for the sake of political expediency, and the romantic intervention of the daughter of one of the landowners (who has her own sordid history with the politician) engenders further difficulties, culminating in an apocalyptic, hallucinatory finale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Set in Tardi's preferred early 20th century milieu, \u003cem\u003eYou Are There\u003c\/em\u003e is drawn in his crisp 1980s neo-\"clear line\" style, gorgeously detailed, elegantly stylized, with impossibly deep slabs of black. \u003cem\u003eYou Are There\u003c\/em\u003e is a feast for both the eyes and the brain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45321543614615,"sku":"9781606992944","price":2674.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781606992944.webp?v=1769290039","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/you-are-there-9781606992944","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}