Agent: Seth Fishman, The Gernert Company. Wisely focusing on imagination and atmosphere over biographical facts, this lyrical, endlessly inventive book will appeal equally to lovers of history, literature, and metatextual fantasy. In alternating color schemes, the bold crayon colors of Glass Town contrast with the drab sepias and grey-blues of the Brontës’ England. Greenberg’s deliberately juvenile but catchy art serves the material well, creating a mood reminiscent of Henry Darger and also recalling the caricatures of Kate Beaton. NPR Best Book of 2020 A graphic novel about the Bront ë siblings, and the strange and marvelous imaginary worlds they invented during their childhood Glass Town is an original graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg that encompasses the eccentric childhoods of the four Brontë childrenCharlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne. Channeling The Chronicles of Narnia and Heavenly Creatures, Greenberg explores the intoxicating power of fiction, developing the Brontës’ juvenile literary game-about which little is known in reality-into a place that feels real while retaining the illogic of a child’s private fantasies. For Charlotte, her tours of the imaginary Glass Town become more real than her exterior life, and its envoys begin to visit her in turn. Growing up with only books and each other for company, the “four forlorn little figures dressed in black” invent an imaginary kingdom and populate it with characters. Greenberg ( The One Hundred Nights of Hero) whimsically blends the real lives of the famous Brontë siblings-Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and their brother Branwell-with the fictional world they created as children in the 1840s.
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