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Title
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Fables amères de tout petits riens
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Description
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Language note: French
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Chabouté
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Creator
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Chabouté
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Contributor
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Chabouté
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Date
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2016-08-26T13:38:56Z
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2016-02
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2010
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Date Available
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2016-08-26T13:38:56Z
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Date Issued
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2010
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Abstract
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"The back of this book of graphic short stories -- short stories presented in pictures with short dialogue -- has this short but accurate description: "…incidents dérisoires, broutilles ordinaires, terribles futilités…" There are about ten of these stories tracing trivial occurrences, especially with a surprising or revealing ending. A checkout young woman at the supermarket gets constant criticism from a customer, and then we learn that she has just lost her father. A camel driver lives the hard but vibrant community life of caravans and then comes to the big city with his pole, and his pole turns out to be the broom of a street sweeper. The post office woman refuses to give a package to a man with a different first name than the addressee. He needs to bring a signed statement or an identity card of the addressee himself. In the last panel we learn that the addressee is the man's three-year-old son and this package is his birthday gift. An elderly woman with a cane sits on a bench in a park and watches agile runners go by, focusing on their hips and feet, and then gets up and toddles away. Gritty art fits the tone of these bitter stories. The search for fables sometimes takes me to surprising places!"
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Identifier
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10834 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Vents d'Ouest
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Grenoble, France
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Subject
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PN6747.C426F33 2010
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Chabouté
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole