Pages: 128
Format: 6 1/2" x 9", Perfect bound, b/w interiors
The Country Nurse is the final volume in the critically acclaimed Essex County trilogy of graphic novels set in a fictionalized version of Lemire’s hometown in Ontario, Canada. The Country Nurse follows a day in the life of Anne Quenneville, this peculiar farming community’s traveling nurse. As Anne checks in on her favorite patients, we finally discover how all three volumes stitch together a portrait of how loss and regret push and pull at the fabric of family in small town life.
"Volume 3 in the Essex County series establishes Jeff Lemire as one of the most elegant graphic novelists of our time. The complexity, the nuances, the pacing and the magic of this Canadian series elevates it to the status of Spiegelman's Maus and Craig Thompson's Blankets. The Country Nurse is a deeply important and unforgettable human story, one that can be returned to again and again for inspiration and strength. It also confirms Top Shelf Productions as a publisher of stories that move us to awe." - Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed and Angel Wing Splash Pattern
Recommended to Teens and Above
Creator: Jeff Lemire
