The concluding volume of the international bestseller and winner of many of
Europe's top comics awards, now available in English for the first
time.
The Age of Discontentment is the second of two volumes presenting
the complete Alack Sinner comics by the Argentine-born team of artist
Jose Munoz and writer Carlos Sampayo.
Hard-boiled private
detective Alack Sinner's adventures wear all the trappings of traditional
detective stories, but are imbued with such deep political conscience and
scathing critiques of corruption in society, that to think of them as nothing
more would be a grave error. Juxtaposed with meditations on the nature of
violence and exile in a noirish New York at the end of the 20th century, these
themes force us to confront the gritty injustices of our real world, making them
as evident as the grime and desperation that pervade traditional detective
fiction.
Alack Sinner stories play out against a jazz soundtrack,
beginning in 1975 and running through the 2000s. The authors have rearranged the
stories by series chronology, rather than date of publication, providing a novel
reading experience for fans both new and old.
The Age of Disconetentment
presents eleven stories, including "Nicaragua," "Private
Stories," "The USA Affair," and "The End of the
Road."