The River at Night by Huizenga, Kevin
The River at Night by Huizenga, Kevin

The River at Night

Appeared on best of the year lists from The Guardian, The Globe & Mail, WIRED, and more...
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Author: Kevin Huizenga
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Language: English
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The River at Night by Huizenga, Kevin

The River at Night

$82.29
The River at Night by Huizenga, Kevin

The River at Night

$82.29
Author: Kevin Huizenga
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Appeared on best of the year lists from The Guardian, The Globe & Mail, WIRED, and more Nominated for the Cartoonist Studio Prize

In The River at Night, Kevin Huizenga delves deep into consciousness. What begins as a simple, distracted conversation between husband and wife, Glenn and Wendy Ganges--him reading a library book and her working on her computer--becomes an exploration of being and the passage of time. As they head to bed, Wendy exhausted by a fussy editor and Glenn energized by his reading and no small amount of caffeine, the story begins to fracture.

The River at Night flashes back, first to satirize the dot-com boom of the late 1990s and then to examine the camaraderie of playing first-person shooter video games with work colleagues. Huizenga shifts focus to suggest ways to fall asleep as Glenn ponders what the passage of time feels like to geologists or productivity gurus. The story explores the simple pleasures of a marriage, like lying awake in bed next to a slumbering lover, along with the less cherished moments of disappointment or inadvertent betrayal of trust. Huizenga uses the cartoon medium like a symphony, establishing rhythms and introducing themes that he returns to, adding and subtracting events and thoughts, stretching and compressing time. A walk to the library becomes a meditation on how we understand time, as Huizenga shows the breadth of the comics medium in surprising ways. The River at Night is a modern formalist masterpiece as empathetic, inventive, and funny as anything ever written.

Author: Kevin Huizenga
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: 09/24/2019
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781770463745


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/15/2019
Library Journal 09/27/2019 pg. 1

About the Author
Kevin Huizenga splits his time between Chicago and Minneapolis. He has lived near the Mississippi River for almost twenty years but only swam in it once. His favorite river is the Wabash. His character Glenn Ganges is based on his brother-in-law and the name is a reference to two separate towns that appear on the same sign on the interstate.
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