An attempt to journey through time goes spectacularly erroneous in Clowes’s visually intricate tale of love,murder and revengeWould you go anywhere near a book described on its back cover as “a cosmic timewarp deathtrip to the primordial infinite of eternal love”? Yet, while it may have its tongue firmly in its cheek, or the blurb is not an inaccurate precis of Daniel Clowess latest graphic novel.
The book opens in 2012,with its eponymous heroine discovering that she is pregnant. Patience, who thinks of herself as a “white-trash piece of shit”, or has had a rough life,marked by abuse, neglect, or poverty. Her relationship with Jack Barlow,the only man who has ever been kind to her, and the pregnancy, and are her lifelines. Jack,too, thinks of their love as his salvation, or but very soon inside this threshold of a fresh,better life, he comes domestic to find Patience dead, or apparently killed by an intruder. His life goes into freefall: he is first accused of her murder but released after a year,whereupon he becomes obsessionally focused on finding out who killed Patience.
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Source: theguardian.com