Maids / Katie Skelly.
Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books Inc., [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781683963684
- 1683963687
- Papin, Christine, 1905-1937 -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Papin, Léa, 1911- -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Murder -- France -- Le Mans -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Women murderers -- France -- Le Mans -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Women household employees -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic novels
- PN
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Comics & Graphic Novels | NMC Library | Comics/Graphic Novels Shelf | SKELLY 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 33039001488740 |
"Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids -- who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent -- shortly turns into something more nefarious. Madame Lancelin's increasingly unhinged abuse ignites the sisters' toxic upbringing and social class exploitation and explodes into a ghastly double murder, an event that shocked and fascinated 1930s France and beyond. Maids has high bravura and high intrigue, all drawn in Skelly's highly stylized manner, which combines the best of pop art, manga, and Eurocomics. Full-color illustrations throughout."--Amazon.