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| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Graphic Novel | 
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| Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Creators: Nunzio Defillippis, Christina Weir, Kevin Cornell
Publisher: Quirk Books
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
Buy New: $8.65
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 28242
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 1594742812
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781594742811
ASIN: 1594742812
Publication Date: October 15, 2008
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Product Description
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who ages in reverse: He is born a feeble 70-year-old and becomes younger as the years progress. This faithful graphic-novel adaptation chronicles Benjamin Button's many adventures: He falls in love with a woman who ages normally (this causes complications), starts a family, and establishes a successful business. In his later years, he attends Harvard as a student and plays on their football team. By the time he is an old man, Benjamin Button resembles a newborn baby. And then he remembered nothing.Through the noons and nights he breathed and over him there were soft mumblings and murmurings that he scarcely heard, and faintly differentiated smells, and light and darkness. The Hollywood adaptation of the story-starring Brad Pitt (as Benjamin Button), Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swenton, and Julia Ormond, and directed by David Fincher (who also directed Pitt in "Fight Club" and "Seven") - opens Thanksgiving Day 2008. This graphic-novel adaptation will allow fans of the film to experience the original source material in a fresh and fun format.
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A Smart and Beautiful Adaptation August 29, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Preferable to the story's original form, this graphic adaptation is well-paced and beautifully illustrated (full disclosure: the illustrator is a good friend of mine), both preserving and enhancing Fitzgerald's winking, flowery prose. Kevin Cornell's loose lines and sepia watercolors strike a flexible tone that deftly manages the story's mood swings and evokes the era magnificently. The portraits marking Benjamin's progress in backward aging at the beginning of each chapter are an especially nice touch.
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