The Story
MARY PAINS HC
(W) LOLA LORENTE (A) LOLA LORENTE (C) LOLA LORENTE
DRAWN & QUARTERLY
StockID: 172304 SKU: 0226DQ0584
Mary Pain’s hit rock bottom with nothing left to lose … but she’s also absolutely free. Mary Pain might just be the patron saint of second chances. Unemployed and all out of options- she buys a one-way bus ticket to the dead-end town she grew up in—where time stands still. Everyone sharing the same old gossip she’s been running from for ages. Back in her childhood home- she needs to find a way to save the house from foreclosure- care for her ailing grandfather- and make peace with her mother’s ghost- whose telephone calls still come in on the old kitchen landline. Not that it keeps her down: She picks up men for midnight trysts in the park- and remains open to deepening connections with childhood friends- new lovers- and precocious altar boys. Lola Lorente’s slick black inkwork feels sophisticated and voluptuous- and her rendering of idiosyncratic townsfolk and their customs is a sensorial delight. Translated from the Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg.
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MARY PAINS HC
(W) LOLA LORENTE (A) LOLA LORENTE (C) LOLA LORENTE
DRAWN & QUARTERLY
StockID: 172304 SKU: 0226DQ0584
Mary Pain’s hit rock bottom with nothing left to lose … but she’s also absolutely free. Mary Pain might just be the patron saint of second chances. Unemployed and all out of options- she buys a one-way bus ticket to the dead-end town she grew up in—where time stands still. Everyone sharing the same old gossip she’s been running from for ages. Back in her childhood home- she needs to find a way to save the house from foreclosure- care for her ailing grandfather- and make peace with her mother’s ghost- whose telephone calls still come in on the old kitchen landline. Not that it keeps her down: She picks up men for midnight trysts in the park- and remains open to deepening connections with childhood friends- new lovers- and precocious altar boys. Lola Lorente’s slick black inkwork feels sophisticated and voluptuous- and her rendering of idiosyncratic townsfolk and their customs is a sensorial delight. Translated from the Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg.
