The Cardboard Valise

by Ben Katchor

The first book in more than ten years from "the creator of the last great American comic strip" (Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author): the story of the fantastical nation of Outer Canthus and the three people who, in some way or another, in­habit its shores.

Emile Delilah is a young xenophile (lover of foreign nations) so addicted to traveling to the exotic regions of Outer Canthus that the government pays him a monthly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375421149
• ISBN13: 9780375421143
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.1" x 8.7"