![]() On the ground floor of the building is the old lady who owns it. ![]() As Philip Larkin had it: "Home is so sad." Like the crumbling building at his story's heart, it's a repository of misery, loneliness and misunderstandings. Ware's box, then, isn't a gimmick, but a sort of proxy. But they work together, too, combining to depict, in rich and multifaceted fashion, the mostly unhappy lives of the inhabitants of a single Chicago apartment block. Each one of these stands alone, and since – in theory – they may be read in any order, several members of a comic-loving family could happily read Building Stories over the course of the same afternoon. ![]() Inside, are 14 "distinctively discrete" books and pamphlets of varying sizes. ![]() C hris Ware's new graphic novel comes in a cardboard box, like BS Johnson's The Unfortunates, or an old-fashioned board game. ![]()
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