Days Like This
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (866 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1929998481 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Strong diverse YA graphic novel It’s the mid 1960s. Anna Solomon just got divorced from her husband, who seems to be running his own record label into the ground. Anna learned a lot from her now-ex’s mistakes, so she decides to start her own label. At her daughter’s talent show, she finds just the girl group she’s looking for… but can Tina and the Tiaras overcome family resistance, find t. "Girl Groups and A Thinly Disguised Brill Building" according to Tim Field. This slim black and white graphic novel is no world changer, but enjoyable on its own lighthearted terms. It was a joy to read a graphic novel that was neither grim nor gritty and one that chose a novel topic for its drama. Chantler's art is perfect; he captures the slickness of 1960's design and fashions and creates appealingly simple characters. Torres' script lays on the melodrama pre
Days Like This follows the formation of "Tina & the Tiaras," a new girl group, as they rise up the charts and overcome personal obstacles to become stars. J. Torres, who used memory to great effect in The Copybook Tales, now casts his eye back to the early '60s, when pop music ruled the airwaves. Featuring stunning art by newcomer Scott Chantler that's reminiscent of the clean lines of vintage graphic design from the period.
From Publishers Weekly Set in the girl-group era of the early 1960s, this slender, pleasant graphic novella concerns a plucky young woman who becomes a songwriter; three almost-as-plucky young girls discovered at a high school talent show who become singing sensations Tina and the Tiaras; and a relatively plucky woman who's starting her own record label with some money from a divorce. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. . As a quick entertainment for younger teens, Days Like This is charming, but there's not much more to it than its surface, and writer Torres largely glosses over the fascinating tensions in the music business of the time (not to mention the work that actually went into creating three-minute AM-radio masterpieces): nobody's got anything tougher to face than a disapproving dad. Torres's fictionalizations of history are harmless on their own (the Brill Building, for instance, becomes "Harmony Plaza"), but what they add up to has none of the