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The Park Bench

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The Park Bench by Chaboute is a poignant, wordless graphic novel that explores the lives intertwined around a single park bench. Through beautifully illustrated scenes, it captures the spectrum of human emotions and experiences, from joy and love to solitude and reflection, revealing the bench as a silent witness to the everyday moments of diverse characters.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This graphic novel may appeal to you if you enjoy exploring the quiet, yet profound stories of everyday life. Through vivid illustrations and minimal dialogue, it captures the diverse array of people and stories that intersect around a humble public bench, offering a touching reflection on human connection and solitude.

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A beautiful and moving graphic novel from French artist, Chaboute - of a park bench and the lives it witnesses.

A beautiful and moving graphic novel from French artist, ChaboutΓ©

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Reissued alongside the English publication of Alone.

The Park Bench is Chaboute's beautiful and acclaimed story of a park bench and the lives it witnesses. At once intimate and universal, it is one of the most moving books you could hope to come across.

For fans of The Fox and the Star, The Man Who Planted Trees, and Richard Linklater's Boyhood.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571332304

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 July 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 175.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 890g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Christophe Chaboute was born in Alsace and studied Fine Arts at Angouleme and then Strasbourg. He is the author of many books, including The Park Bench and All the World, which Faber will publish in 2018.

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