Glass Town
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
The entrancing story of the Brontë sisters' childhood imaginary world, from the New York Times bestselling graphic novelist.
Four children: Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne have invented a world so real and vivid that they can step right into it. But can reality be enough, when fiction is so enticing? And what happens to an imaginary world when its creators grow up?
Plots are spiralling, characters are getting wildly out of hand, and a great deal of ink is being spilt...
Welcome to Glass Town.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Greenberg (The One Hundred Nights of Hero) whimsically blends the real lives of the famous Bront siblings Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and their brother Branwell with the fictional world they created as children in the 1840s. Growing up with only books and each other for company, the "four forlorn little figures dressed in black" invent an imaginary kingdom and populate it with characters. For Charlotte, her tours of the imaginary Glass Town become more real than her exterior life, and its envoys begin to visit her in turn. Channeling The Chronicles of Narnia and Heavenly Creatures, Greenberg explores the intoxicating power of fiction, developing the Bront s' juvenile literary game about which little is known in reality into a place that feels real while retaining the illogic of a child's private fantasies. Greenberg's deliberately juvenile but catchy art serves the material well, creating a mood reminiscent of Henry Darger and also recalling the caricatures of Kate Beaton. In alternating color schemes, the bold crayon colors of Glass Town contrast with the drab sepias and grey-blues of the Bront s' England. Wisely focusing on imagination and atmosphere over biographical facts, this lyrical, endlessly inventive book will appeal equally to lovers of history, literature, and metatextual fantasy.
