Shoplifter
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The brilliant debut graphic novel from the author of Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes about a young woman’s search for happiness and self-fulfillment in the big city. • “Perfectly convey[s] the loneliness of urban life.” — Entertainment Weekly
Corrina Park used to have big plans.
Studying English literature in college, she imagined writing a successful novel and leading the idealized life of an author. But she’s been working at the same advertising agency for the past five years and the only thing she’s written is ... copy. Corrina knows there must be more to life, but and she faces the same question as does everyone in her how to find it? (With two-color illustrations throughout.)
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Pink seems such an unlikely accent to the black ink illustration but it works. Cho does cityscapes incredibly well from a night-time shot of an empty basketball court, to the busy rush of traffic late at night to the quiet variety store outside the core. (His Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes book showcasing Toronto is stunningly good) The artwork here is beautiful.
Corrina Park isn't sure what she's doing. Writing ad copy at an advertising firm post English Lit degree isn't where she'd thought she'd be 5 years after graduating. It's a familiar territory, how'd I end up here alone in the big city writing banal blurbs for empty products when I could be writing my passion. But Cho manages to be melancholic without being bitter. And Corrina is sympathetic and quietly rendered when she could have been cloying and obvious in other hands.
