Jacksonville Public Library

Yellow cab, Chabouté ; based on the novel by Benoit Cohen ; translation by Edward Gauvin ; letters by Nathan Widick

eng

contains biographical information

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Yellow cab

comics graphic novels

1265005333

Chabouté ; based on the novel by Benoit Cohen ; translation by Edward Gauvin ; letters by Nathan Widick

"Benoit Cohen is drained. With his enthusiasm gone, a desire to stop writing and put down the camera takes over. Looking for a new experience, he moves to New York, but after living in the city for a year, he still wonders about how best to absorb the rich diversity of the cosmopolitan metropolis, finally settling on a simple idea: become a taxi driver. With the help of award-winning artist Chabouté, the resulting graphic memoir is now a sensitive, deeply human graphic novel, with breathtaking illustrations that pay vibrant tribute to the most famous of American cities. Behind the fantasy of freedom and independence, behind the faces of his thousands of passengers, Benoit discovers a world most people will never experience. First the administrative maze that leads to the taxi driver's license. Then the people behind the scenes. And, finally, the prejudices that surround the profession and lead the customers, police, and entire city to look at it, quite randomly, either with indifference, kindness, or aggression. Diving into his new life with the idea of turning it into a screenplay for a future film, the material he collects from this social experiment marks him deeply, leading down unsuspected paths as the project transforms into an autobiographical novel interspersed with reflections on the creative process." --, Page [4] of cover

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