Books by Frederik Peeters and Complete Book Reviews
Frederik Peeters, trans. by Edward Gauvin. Abrams/SelfMadeHero, $19.95 hardcover (88p) ISBN 978-1-906-83873-7
At the start of the first volume of this French SF thriller trilogy, a distant-future ne’er-do-well named Verloc wakes in a molten crater, his eyes filled with tears over his lost daughter, and his memories a blur. Moments later, he’s approached by...
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Frederik Peeters, trans from the French by Edward Gauvin. Abrams/Self Made Hero, $19.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-906838-60-7
Her flight to her injured husband's side interrupted by an injured elephant in the road, Carice Sorrel makes her way to the hospital where her husband Pierre —victim of a drunk driver—waits for her. There, guided by her own future corpse, Madame...
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Frederik Peeters and Loo Hui Phang, trans. from the French by Edward Gauvin. SelfMadeHero, $29.99 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-910593-40-0
In this stunning graphic novel, the familiar setting of the American West is transformed into a fantasy landscape drenched in rich color and detail. It’s the waning days of the Wild West, and a trio heads out for the territories west of the...
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Frederik Peeters, Author, Anjali Singh, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-618-82099-3
Originally published in Switzerland, Peeters's comics memoir of his romance with an HIV-positive woman named Cati (whose young son is also seropositive) is a new and sweeter kind of AIDS narrative-set in the era when HIV has become a chronic...
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Frederik Peeters, trans. from the French by Edward Gauvin. Top Shelf, $29.99 trade paper (392p) ISBN 978-1-60309-459-7
This brooding sci-fi saga from Peeters (The Smell of Starving Boys) rides along with a wayward traveler through outer space’s strangest, most hallucinatory reaches. Lupus and his childhood friend Tony have set out on a haphazard, hedonistic trip:...
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