Secret Life - by Theo Ellsworth & Jeff VanderMeer (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"At the centre of Secret Life is The Building, an office building wherein several factions vie for dominance... Jeff VanderMeer's ecological speculations overlap with Theo Ellsworth's deep-layered style to create a mind-bending narrative that defamiliarizes the mundanity of office work and makes the arcane rituals of The Building home... Secret Life observes the sinister individualism of bureaucratic settings in contrast with an unconcerned natural world. As the narrative progresses you may begin to suspect that the world Ellsworth has brought to life with hypnotic visuals is not so secret after all; in fact, it's uncannily similar to our own."--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>An uncanny and eye-opening journey into a mysterious building, adapted from a short story by Jeff VanderMeer<br></b><br>To the west: trees. To the east: a mall. North: fast food. South: darkness. And at the centre is The Building, an office building wherein several factions vie for dominance. Inside, the walls are infiltrated with vines, a mischief of mice learn to speak English, and something eerie happens once a month on the fifth floor. In <i>Secret Life, </i> Theo Ellsworth uses a deep-layered style to interpret Nebula award-winning author Jeff VanderMeer's short story. What emerges is a mind-bending narrative that defamiliarizes the mundanity of office work and makes the arcane rituals of The Building home. <p/>When his manager borrows his pen for a presentation, a man is driven to unspeakable acts as he questions the role the pen has played in his workplace success. The despised denizens of the second floor develop their own tongue, incomprehensible to everyone else in The Building. A woman plants a seed of insurgency that quickly permeates every corner of the building with its sweet, nostalgic perfume. <p/>With deft insight, Secret Life observes the sinister individualism of bureaucratic settings in contrast with an unconcerned natural world. As the narrative progresses you may begin to suspect that the world Ellsworth has brought to life with hypnotic visuals is not so secret after all; in fact, it's uncannily similar to our own.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><i></i>This is a vision of office life gone very surreal, with warring tribes who develop their own language and mice who learn to speak English.--<i>New York Times <p/></i>The incendiary collision of two singular talents... Ellsworth adapts VanderMeer's tale of a mysterious building where 'office culture' connotes secret languages and unspoken rituals, and a cherished desk plant with a tantalizing fragrance grows to menacing proportions.--<i>Poets and Writers Magazine <p/></i>It's impossible to look away.--Alex Dueben, <i>Orion Magazine <p/>Secret Life </i>captures the dark pulsing horror of office life with a bizarre honesty found only in bad dreams and good nightmares. An engrossing, unsettling, beautiful work.--Patrick McHale, <i>Over the Garden Wall</i> <p/>This bizarre, fantastical vision will charm art comics and surrealist lit fans alike.--<i>Publishers Weekly <p/></i>Unique, striking, and surreal... Corporate culture, capitalism/consumption, social hierarchies, and domination notwithstanding, only a vine flourishes here.--<i>Booklist</i> <p/>An allegory about work life like no other.--<i>NOW Magazine</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Theo Ellsworth</b> is a self-taught artist living in Montana. His previously published comics include Capacity, The Understanding Monster, Sleeper Car, and An Exorcism. The New York Times once called his work, Imagination at firehose intensity. He has been the recipient of the Lynd Ward Honor Book Prize and an Artist Innovation Award. He loves creative collaboration, cooking, and making family folk art with his kids. He is constantly making invisible performance art in his head that no one will ever see.
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