Description A man has trouble falling asleep and reflects on his life, marriage, and time itself In The River at Night , Kevin Huizenga delves deep into consciousness.
His character Glenn Ganges is based on his brother-in-law and the name is a reference to two separate towns that appear on the same sign on the interstate..
His favorite River is the Wabash.
He has lived near the Mississippi River for almost twenty years but only swam in it once.
About the Author Kevin Huizenga splits his time between Chicago and Minneapolis.
The River at Night is a modern formalist masterpiece as empathetic, inventive, and funny as anything ever written.
A walk to the library becomes a meditation on how we understand time, as Huizenga shows the breadth of the comics medium in surprising ways.
Huizenga uses the cartoon medium like a symphony, establishing rhythms and introducing themes that he returns to, adding and subtracting events and thoughts, stretching and compressing time.
The story explores the simple pleasures of a marriage, like lying awake in bed next to a slumbering lover, along with the less cherished moments of disappointment or inadvertent betrayal of trust.
Huizenga shifts focus to suggest ways to fall asleep as Glenn ponders what the passage of time feels like to geologists or productivity gurus.
The River at Night flashes back, first to satirize the dot-com boom of the late 1990s and then to examine the camaraderie of playing first-person shooter video games with work colleagues.
As they head to bed, Wendy exhausted by a fussy editor and Glenn energized by his reading and no small amount of caffeine, the story begins to fracture.
What begins as a simple, distracted conversation between husband and wife, Glenn and Wendy Ganges--him reading a library book and her working on her computer--becomes an exploration of being and the passage of time.
Description A man has trouble falling asleep and reflects on his life, marriage, and time itself In The River at Night , Kevin Huizenga delves deep into consciousness
