{"product_id":"voice-of-witness-reader-book-dave-eggers-9781940450773","title":"The Voice of Witness Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the medium's brilliant mavericks. --Time.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995\u0026gt;\u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of short-story works by the celebrated and bestselling\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eLouis Riel\u003c\/i\u003e cartoonist Chester Brown. From his early experimental comedic surrealism to his later autobiographical and essay strips, we see not a major talent in development but a fully realized storytelling virtuoso. Included are his early autobiographical stories Helder (a story about a young man's tentativeness when pursuing a woman), Showing Helder (a blow-by-blow account of the construction of the previous story), and Danny (a strangely compelling moment-by-moment account of Brown waking up and trying to avoid contact with a fellow rooming-house tenant). Other standouts are Brown's controversial essay on schizophrenia (specifically his own mother's) and various medical views on this baffling disease, and the title story, The Little Man, a Freudian classroom romp fantasy by a adolescent Brown that ties into the schizophrenia essay in a surprising way. The acclaimed compendium, culled mostly from his groundbreaking comic book series Yummy Fur, provides a fascinating insight into Brown's psyche; he rounds out the collection with exacting notes on each story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394643661073,"sku":"CIN1940450772G","price":5.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53499999551761,"sku":"CIN1940450772VG","price":5.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1940450772.jpg?v=1750804038","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/voice-of-witness-reader-book-dave-eggers-9781940450773","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}