Kapow!
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Unfolding, turning and spinning, Kapow is a new book by best-selling British writer Adam Thirlwell. Kapow takes place in the thick of the Arab Spring, guided by the highspeed monologue of an unnamed narrator over-doped, over-caffeinated, over-weight trying to make sense of this history in real time: with 24 hour broadcasts, YouTube films, lesbian bars in London s East End and far too many newspaper clippings. A clever, funny and bitingly critical cultural commentary, using spinning digressions to tell the stories of a group of interconnected characters in London and Egypt, each transformed by the idea of revolution. Beautifully and thoughtfully designed by Studio Frith, hailed by the New York Times as the go-to graphic designer, Kapow asks readers to open and unfold pages, to follow text leaking in and out of paragraphs, to discover more and more visual surprises, while progressively becoming part of and lost within the narrator s giddy digressions. Kapow is a beautifully crafted object told in Thirlwell s uniquely acrobatic voice: a visually immersive storytelling experience like no other. "
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0956569234
ISBN13:9780956569233
Release Date:June 2012
Publisher:Visual Editions
Length:190 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"
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