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This piqued my curiosity, and here are some results of my Googly search.
1. A flattering preview/recommendation from The Library Journal:
"What a fine marriage of form and content! Humble and moving—straightforward with occasional breathtaking bravura passages—this book echoes the Carter Family's rough-hewn sounds. It tells of the lives, sorrows, and values of a lost America in short episodes like a giant stack of old 78s. Using the vocabulary of comic strips like Little Orphan Annie and Gasoline Alley, it's as obsessive in its dedication to vernacular craft and hard work as A.P. Carter himself. Frank Young and David Lasky have spun a work of visual music that will replay in your head and heart well after you've finished reading it."
see the page HERE.
3. numerous pre-order sites for the book (including Diamond Previews, the aforementioned mega-catalog)... all these listings basically use the boilerplate promotional description supplied by Abrams. It's a good description, but you'll see it all over the place over the next few months.
Indeed, the book is getting closer to release. We're supposed to get our mitts on an advance copy pretty soon. Abrams' booth at the San Diego Comic Con will have copies of the book for sale (IF the book gets back from the printers by then--a big if at this point!)
If you've seen any random web mentions of our book, please let us know! In the meantime, it's neat to see the book coming up on the horizon of the publishing/reading world...
We will showcase some sequences from the book here very soon. In the meantime, we're excited to share this news with you!
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2 comments:
Very very cool.
Two corrections: It was Carl Nelson who said he saw it in Previews -- I still haven't seen the listing.
And I just got word from Abrams that advance copies will not yet be ready for the San Diego ComicCon... Alas!
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