Book : Ducks Two Years In The Oil Sands - Beaton, Kate

-Titulo Original : Ducks Two Years In The Oil Sands

-Fabricante :

Drawn And Quarterly

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“An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival.“ Carmen Maria Machado Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can’t find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton’s natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, northern lights, and boreal forest. Her first full length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people. Review “A monumental synthesis of history, politics, and herself…Ducks weaves Beaton’s own experiences with warm, humane portraits of the many people she met on the oil sands… 55,000 square miles [that are] a controversial locus of the Canadian economy, culture, and politics, a byword for both prosperity and environmental destruction.” Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture “What a difficult, gorgeous and abidingly humane book.” Rachel Cooke, The Guardian “Epic. Kate Beaton headed west [to] one of the world’s most environmentally destructive oil operations, where workers lived in barracks-like camps and men vastly outnumbered women. Her experience there… gave her an insider’s view into a place and piece of Canadian history few outsiders ever see.” Robert Ito, New York Times “A serious, moving, and heartfelt piece of cartooning that is as kind as it is fearless. Easily one of the most impressive graphic novels of this year, or works of any kind in the past decade.” Graeme McMillan, Wired “[Ducks] blends her trademark wry humor with sharp social critique and raw personal experience.” Dan Kois, Slate “An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival. Beaton is a thoughtful guide through a complex landscape of class and gender, and these pages ache with grief and grace.” Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House “A masterpiece, a heartbreak, a nightlight shining in the dark.” Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This “Powerful and brilliant, this is easily the best graphic work I’ve read this year.” Margaret Kingsbury, Buzzfeed Books “Kate Beatons exceptionally well-told and well-drawn graphic memoir… full of insights into human and environmental degradation, make[s] her a memoirist of the first rank. Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times “Candid and unflinching.” Karla Strand, Ms Magazine “Beaton left Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton at age 21 for an oil boom spurting a wealth of high-paying jobs that she could use to pay off her student loans. The place she finds is full of life and also hostile to it; a cabdriver warns her that a “shadow population” of workers “live here, but they don’t live here.” As Beaton settles into daily life in a tool shop, she begins to understand how that transience changes people, as well as her own complicity in the wholesale destruction of Indigenous land.” Emma Alpern, Vulture “In this hefty, sublime graphic novel/memoir, Beaton invites readers into a lonely, alien world just outside our own.” Patrick Rapa, Philadelphia Inquirer “What makes this the kind of book that you can’t stop thinking about is the empathy with which Beaton sees the world.” Dustin Nelson, Thrillist “Inside this dreary situation, she somehow finds humanity and even humor. It took Beaton about two