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Veils (original 1999; edição 1999)

por Pat McGreal

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This trade paperback was originally released to great acclaim as a hardcover in Spring of 1999. Reviewed in a diverse range of magazines from Entertainment Weekly to Computer Graphics World, this graphic novel is an historical fiction piece steeped in eroticism and intrigue.Juxtaposing photography, computer-generated effects and backgrounds, and pages of fully-painted artwork, this piece portrays the opulent, but tortured existence of Vivian Pearse-Packard. Vivian is a newlywed whose British husband is an embittered ambassador. During a visit to the Sultan's palace, she must enter a domain of enslaved women and watchful eunuchs: the harem of the Sultan.For mature audiences, this title provides both a thrilling story and incredible, cutting-edge illustration.… (mais)
Membro:hobreads
Título:Veils
Autores:Pat McGreal
Informação:Vertigo (1999), Paperback, 96 pages
Coleções:Lidos mas não possuídos
Avaliação:*****
Etiquetas:fumetti, graphic novel, harem, Vertigo comics

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Veils por Pat McGreal (1999)

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  freixas | Mar 31, 2023 |
An Englishwoman is invited to the Sultan's palace and hears a strange tale of a slave who became the mother of a sultan. Her visits anger her husband and father-in-law, the British Consul. They plan to ship her back to England, but she flees and is offerred a very different future. ( )
  ritaer | Mar 31, 2018 |
When I first saw it, I was dubious of the unusual art style. Once I started reading, i couldn't put it down. It's the fascinating story of a young newlywed Englishwoman who travels to the Middle East with her new husband, and what she finds there. ( )
  nolly | Oct 23, 2010 |
The book uses photographs (as well as digital and painted artwork) of elaborate sets and costumed actors to carry the story, presenting a richly textured Victorian colonial style and exuding a lush, Middle Eastern mystique. It's a seamless blend of evocative, sensous photography that merges with digitally generated backgrounds to create a surprisingly real time and place of long ago or far away. In short, it evokes a mythic, Arabian Nights-like landscape of the mind's imaginings. The artwork alone is enough to make you read this graphic novel.

Vivian, a young English housewife, accompanies her insufferable husband on a diplomatic mission to an un-named Arabic country. There, they happen upon the local slave market, where Vivian becomes fascinated by a female slave.

Later, visiting the sultan along with her husband, Vivian is invited, quite improbably, to visit the royal harem. It really begins, though, when women of the East meet a woman of the West. There she hears the story of Rosalind, a white aristocrat kipnapped into the harem years before.

For years, woman are preceived in certain ways and must uphold their appearance and thoughts in a certain way to uphold their status. Well, Veils does the opposite. It allows the protagonist the daring decision to liberate her feminity and desires and in the process, sheds all her outer burdens. Truely literary and deep. Deals with the orient, feminism, and of course male domination on the female body.

The story is all about dualities: rank vs. power, public vs. closed societies, and real vs. fable, to name just a few. The dualities are so much sharper for being so close beside each other, as close and as far away as the harem behind the women's door.

Veils is a tale of eroticism and intrigue, and also something of a psychological mystery. It's up to you to peel away the veils -- one by one -- to learn the potentially deadly truth.

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Title Veils
Author Pat McGreal
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  purplycookie | Apr 12, 2009 |
Great story and gorgeous art. ( )
  ryvre | Feb 23, 2008 |
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This trade paperback was originally released to great acclaim as a hardcover in Spring of 1999. Reviewed in a diverse range of magazines from Entertainment Weekly to Computer Graphics World, this graphic novel is an historical fiction piece steeped in eroticism and intrigue.Juxtaposing photography, computer-generated effects and backgrounds, and pages of fully-painted artwork, this piece portrays the opulent, but tortured existence of Vivian Pearse-Packard. Vivian is a newlywed whose British husband is an embittered ambassador. During a visit to the Sultan's palace, she must enter a domain of enslaved women and watchful eunuchs: the harem of the Sultan.For mature audiences, this title provides both a thrilling story and incredible, cutting-edge illustration.

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