Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Copyright Date: 2017

Edition Date: 2017 Release Date: 09/19/17

Pages: 327 pages

ISBN: 1-501-15402-8

ISBN 13: 978-1-501-15402-7

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2018286004

Dimensions: 24 cm.

Subject Heading:
Benches. Comic books, strips, etc. Juvenile fiction.
Parks. Comic books, strips, etc. Juvenile fiction.
Stories without words. Comic books, strips, etc.
Benches. Comic books, strips, etc. Fiction.
Parks. Comic books, strips, etc. Fiction.
Stories without words. Comic books, strips, etc.

Language: English

Reading Level: 7.0

Interest Level: 9+

With his masterful illustration style, bestselling French creator-storyteller Chabouté (Alone, Moby-Dick) explores community through a common, often ignored object: the park bench.

From its creation, to its witness to the fresh ardor of lovers, the drudgery of businessmen, the various hopes of the many who enter its orbit, the park bench weathers all seasons. Strangers meet at it for the first time. Paramours carve their initials into it. Old friends sit and chat upon it for hours. Others ignore the bench, or (attempt to) sleep on it at night, or simply anchor themselves on it and absorb the ebb and flow of the area and its people.

Christophe Chabouté’s mastery of the visual medium turns this simple object into a thought-provoking and gorgeously wrought meditation on time, desire, and the life of communities all across the planet. This could be a bench in my hometown or yours—the people in this little drama are very much those we already recognize.