Dispossession: A Novel of Few Words

Simon Grennan

Dispossession: A Novel of Few Words
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 September 2015
Pages
104
ISBN
9780224102209

Dispossession: A Novel of Few Words

Simon Grennan

A stunning ‘Victorian’ graphic novel based on a little-known novel by Anthony Trollope

England, 1873. John Caldigate, a young gentleman, gets into debt gambling and decides to try his luck in the gold fields of New South Wales. On the outward journey, he promises to marry Mrs Smith, a divorced actress who is travelling in the same ship. Returning home a rich man, John marries Hester, the sweetheart he left behind. Soon, Mrs Smith also returns from Australia, penniless, and claims that she is already his wife.;;Inspired by Anthony Trollope’s 1879 novel John Caldigate, Dispossession embeds the reader in a uniquely wrought experience of the mid-nineteenth century, including the first ever appearance of the Aboriginal Wiradjuri language in a graphic novel.;;Taking unique advantage of the graphic form to conjure the material world of the Victorian era in a glittering waltz of intense colour and deep shadow, Dispossession is a virtuoso and intensely affecting graphic novel by a master visual storyteller.

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