Life Is with People
From the author of Preparation for the Next Life comes a brand new edition of Life Is with People, Atticus Lish‰۪s first book of 131 illustrations (including 9 brand new ones). The first edition was a limited run of 500 copies. The captioned illustrations within have been described as beautiful, disturbing, hilarious, and terrifying. An interesting companion to Lish‰۪s PEN/Faulkner prize winning novel. Only a couple thousand of these were printed. ‰ÛÏA sketchbook drawn through a poetic gloryhole.‰ ‰ÛÒJ.A. Tyler ‰ÛÏThis book of dark drawings opens with a handwritten remark from the writer: ‰Û÷My primary goal in producing this book is to meet peoplewith similar interests.‰۪ It‰۪s such a plaintive and sincere sentiment as to cast the inked portraits of starved women and genitals and violence of the subsequent pages, giving the book the feeling that it was scraped out of the gutter in front of the visitor's entrance of a maximum security prison.‰ ‰ÛÒAmelia Grey ‰ÛÏThe book is sort of di