{"product_id":"plagues-and-pencils-a-year-of-pandemic-sketches-hardcover","title":"Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward Carey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMax Porter\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey raced home to Austin, Texas. The next day, he published on social media a sketch of \"A Very Determined Young Man.\" The day after, he posted another drawing. One year and one hundred and fifty Tombow B pencil stubs later, he was still drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarey's pencil fills the page with the marvelous and intriguing, picturing people, characters, animals, monsters, and his favorite bird to draw, the grackle. He reaches into history and fiction to escape grim reality through flights of vivid imagination--until events demand the drawings \"look straight on.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreonna Taylor, the Brontë sisters, John Lewis, King Lear, and even the portraits that mark the progress of the year for the Very Determined Young Man combine into a remarkable document of the pandemic and its politics. For Carey, though, trapped inside a home he loves, these portraits are something more, a way to chart time, an artist's way of creating connection in isolation. With an introduction by Max Porter, this exceptional collection from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eLittle\u003c\/i\u003e marks a year of a man trapped with his pencil, determined to find solace amid uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Carey is the author and illustrator of four novels--\u003ci\u003eObservatory Mansions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlva \u0026amp; Irva\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Swallowed Man\u003c\/i\u003e--and the YA series \u003ci\u003eThe Iremonger Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMax Porter is the author of \u003ci\u003eGrief Is the Thing with Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLanny\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Francis Bacon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.1 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766784196896,"sku":"9781477325865","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/58722942d4219020a20e772b01133a2f.webp?v=1780298922","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/plagues-and-pencils-a-year-of-pandemic-sketches-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}