Series
Description
The first story introduces the young, pale, perky, and genuinely likable Death. One day in every century, Death walks the Earth to better understand those to whom she will be the final visitor. Today is that day. As a young mortal girl named Didi, Death befriends a teenager and helps a 250-year old homeless woman find her missing heart. What follows is a sincere musing on love, life and (of course) death. In the second story, a rising star of the music world wrestles with revealing her true sexual orientation just as her lover is lured into the realm of Death that Death herself should make an appearance. A practical, honest, and intelligent story that illuminates "the miracle of death."
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2012-10-09
Physical description
320 p.; 6.63 inches
Publication
Vertigo (2014), Edition: First Edition, 320 pages
Pages
320
ISBN
1401247164 / 9781401247164
Local notes
Contains the two "Death" graphic novels "The High Cost of Living" and "The Time of Your Life" (both partial continuations of supporting characters from the Sandman arc "A Game of You"), the "Death and Venice" story from "Endless Nights", the two Sandman issues whose primary focus was Death ("The Sound of Her Wings" and "Façade"), and the shorts "A WInter's Tale" and "The Wheel". Additionally there is the short AIDS/safe sex information comic "Death Talks About Life", an art gallery and an introspective introduction by Tori Amos.
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LibraryThing member musichick52
I bumbled upon this volume in our local library and just loved it. Death appears in the form of a girl once per year and we watch as she assists her assignments during this fleeting period. Several stories are linked through plot line and the artwork is to die for. Comic book, graphic novel,
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whichever, just pure heaven. Show Less
LibraryThing member Linyarai
This was a collection of stories featuring Lady Death. It was alright, not my favorite art styles.
LibraryThing member TobinElliott
Dammit, I hate when GR loses my review. Okay, once again...
Reading this collection, I don't know about the other readers, but I couldn't help but fall in love a little bit with Death. Very much like some of the characters in the stories.
This particular collection shows off a deceptive simplicity to
Then Gaiman and Bachalo come in and create these wonderfully complex and fully realized characters, each with much to say. These would be the equivalent of Lennon or McCartney bringing in the ideas for the songs.
And then, through the course of these stories, these characters talk. They talk about things we all wish we had that good friend or lover that we could talk to of such things. They talk to Death, or they talk to a character who knows to ask the right questions. In either case, while answers are not always given, the questions and the discussions around them are both fascinating and illuminating. These would be the flourishes of musicianship shown by McCartney, Lennon, and Harrison. Combined with that beat, they become masterpieces.
Exactly like what you have in this collection. Wonderful, thought-provoking masterpieces.
Reading this collection, I don't know about the other readers, but I couldn't help but fall in love a little bit with Death. Very much like some of the characters in the stories.
This particular collection shows off a deceptive simplicity to
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Gaiman's approach to the stories. The two main ones involve a madwoman wanting her heart back, and a bargain, previously struck and honoured, now being called in. Imagine, if you will, these are Ringo's steady backbeat to a Beatles' song.Then Gaiman and Bachalo come in and create these wonderfully complex and fully realized characters, each with much to say. These would be the equivalent of Lennon or McCartney bringing in the ideas for the songs.
And then, through the course of these stories, these characters talk. They talk about things we all wish we had that good friend or lover that we could talk to of such things. They talk to Death, or they talk to a character who knows to ask the right questions. In either case, while answers are not always given, the questions and the discussions around them are both fascinating and illuminating. These would be the flourishes of musicianship shown by McCartney, Lennon, and Harrison. Combined with that beat, they become masterpieces.
Exactly like what you have in this collection. Wonderful, thought-provoking masterpieces.
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LibraryThing member et.carole
Beautiful story, beautiful art, hope for the future of graphic novels, etc etc
LibraryThing member booklove2
A solid collection of loose comics featuring Death. Also love the collection of art in the back. I do love the endless callbacks, how the Sandman books are so connected, but sometimes those callbacks are very obscure, even while trying to read them all in relatively short order. (I did mean to
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entirely finish all the Sandman related books THIS YEAR but of course that didn't happen... next year?) Though it seems like Hazel and Foxglove are really taking over these stories a bit TOO much. But I'm not sick of these stories yet... Show Less