The Collected Essex County
Jeff Lemire's award-winning graphic novel of linked stories about small-town life in rural Ontario.
Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel collects three linked stories set in rural Essex County, Ontario: Tales from the Farm, Ghost Stories and The Country Nurse, along with two shorter pieces. Published by Top Shelf, the collection won the Alex Award, the Doug Wright Award and the Joe Shuster Award, and in 2011 it was chosen for Canada Reads as one of the essential Canadian novels of the decade.
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Ethan Hawke
This is my favorite graphic novel. The Essex County stories, which follow three generations of a farming family in Ontario, helped me understand that the possibilities of the graphic novel reach beyond anything I had ever imagined. Simple, human, touching, and funny.
Article · June 2016
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