{"product_id":"the-new-world-hardcover","title":"The New World | Hardcover","description":"Comics from Mauretania\u003cbr\u003eA surreal vision of a post-alien-invasion Earth where human beings still have to deal with quotidian frustrations, ennui, and understanding their place in the world.Since the mid-1980s, the British cartoonist Chris Reynolds has been  assembling a world all his own. On the surface, it seems much like ours:  a place of cool afternoon shadows and gently rolling hills, half-empty  trains and sleepy downtown streets. But the closer you look, the weirder  it gets. After losing a mysterious intergalactic war, Earth is no  longer in humanity’s control. Blandly friendly aliens lurk on the  margins and seem especially interested in the mining industry. The very  rules of time and space seem to have shifted: Mysterious figures  suddenly appear in childhood photos, family members disappear forever  without warning, power outages abound, and certain people gain the power  of flight. A helmeted man named Jimmy is somehow causing local  businesses to shutter and is being closely watched by the “trendy new  police force,” Rational Control. The world is being remade, but in what  image?This new collection, selected and designed by the acclaimed  cartoonist Seth, includes short stories, a novella, and the full-length  graphic novel Mauretania. It is the ideal guide to all the  mystery and wonder of one of the most underappreciated cult classics in  the history of comics.This NYRC edition is a hardcover with foil stamping, debossing, full-color endpapers, and extra-thick paper, and features new scans of the original artwork.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Artists \u0026amp; Writers:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChris Reynolds was born in Wales in 1960 and studied fine art at the  North Staffordshire Polytechnic. He has worked as a filmmaker,  publicist, and art teacher but now devotes his time to drawing comics.  He lives in Poole in the United Kingdom.Seth is the cartoonist behind the comic book series Palookaville, and his comics have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Best American Comics, and McSweeney’s. His illustrations have appeared in numerous publications, including on the covers of The New Yorker, The Walrus, and Canadian Notes \u0026amp; Queries. He is also Lemony Snicket’s partner for the new young-adult series All the Wrong Questions. Seth lives in Guelph, Ontario, with his wife, Tania, and their two cats in an old house he has named Inkwell’s End.Ed Park is a founding editor of The Believer and a former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement and for the Poetry Foundation. His debut novel, Personal Days, published in 2008, was a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for First Fiction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43766202499263,"sku":"9781681372389","price":67.63,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/files\/9781681372389.jpg?v=1729838049","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/the-new-world-hardcover","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}