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    Ghost World (Paperback) By (author) Daniel Clowes

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    Short Description for Ghost WorldA graphic novel, which tells of the adventures of Enid Coleslaw and Beck Doppelmeyer, two bored, supremely ironic teenage girls. They pass the time complaining about the guys they know and fantasising about strange men they see in the local diner.
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    Mark Thwaite

    Enid and Rebecca's story is the tale of the waning months of their adolescence. Womanhood is just around the corner and the two best friends swear a lot (and brilliantly: get swearing right in dialogue is really difficult and Clowes' ear is excellent here), talk about boys, their first sexual experiences, what they hate about (many) other people and try not to think too hard about what life holds in store for them. They have developed and very personal and refined code that means that most everyone else who isn't either Enid or Rebecca is dorky, or stupid, or a Satanist, or a pervert, or an idiot. Somehow, as characters, that only ever seems to make them more real and more endearing. The dialogue is cracking throughout the comic (and well realised in the film which, however, veers away from Clowes plot here somewhat) - funny, ironic, authentic. And their is an authenticity about their friendship, borne out of their rounded characterisations, and predicated on the creeping sense that, whilst the two girls have been best friends, like, for ever the sisterly - indeed, almost married - closeness they now feel is inevitably going to wane. This is brilliantly invoked in a scene (also, not in the film) where Rebecca says to Enid, "You tell me every stupid detail of your life but you don't even mention that you're studying for this test [to get into college.]" They both know that they can't remain such extreme intimates - especially not with Enid's possible (probable) departure - and the all too likely appearance of more permanent boyfriends coming between them.


    Whilst there are frames taken directly from the comic and storyboarded into the excllent film Ghost World, the comic has both a different plotline (and many more subtleties) and a more languorous and ironic tone than the film. I also found it a lot sadder - the dusk of the girl's teenage years is beautifully rendered by Clowes and Ghost World is a highly affecting piece.

    by Mark Thwaite

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