Available in English for the first time--the internationally bestselling graphic novel and an Official Selection at France's prestigious Angoul?me Internaional Comics Festival by master illustrator-storyteller Chabout? (Park Bench, Moby-Dick).

On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the world, a lonely hermit lives out his existence. Every week a supply boat leaves provisions, its occupants never meeting him, never asking the obvious questions: Who are you? Why do you hide? Why do you never leave? What is it like to be so alone?

Years spent on a deserted rock--a lifetime, really--with imagination his sole companion has made the lighthouse keeper something more than alone, something else entirely. For him, what lies beyond the horizon might be...nothing. And so, why not stay put? But one day, as a new boatman starts asking the questions all others have avoided, a chain of events unfolds that will irrevocably upend the hermit's solitary life....

Filled with stunning and richly executed black-and-white illustrations, Alone is Chabout?'s masterpiece--an unforgettable tale where tenderness, despair, and humor intertwine to flawlessly portray how someone can be an everyman, and every man is someone.

Translated from the French by Ivanka Hahnenberger.

Author: Christophe Chabouté
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Gallery 13
Published: 07/11/2017
Pages: 384
Weight: 2.5lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.50w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781501153327


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/22/2017
Library Journal 06/01/2017
Booklist 07/01/2017 pg. 36
Shelf Awareness 07/28/2017

About the Author
Chabouté, Christophe: - Christophe Chabouté published his first work, Stories, based on the work of Arthur Rimbaud, in 1993 in France. Since then, he has received numerous prizes for his very personal illustration and storytelling style. When Alone, a wholly original work of his, published in France, it was widely hailed as his masterpiece and was an Official Selection at France's prestigious Angoulême International Comics Festival. He is the illustrator-storyteller of Park Bench.