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Hypo the Melancholic Young Lincoln
by Noah Van Sciver
192p, b&w, hardcover, 7.25"x9.25"
$24.99
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The debut graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver follows the
twentysomething Abraham Lincoln as he loses everything, long before
becoming our most
beloved president. Lincoln is a rising Whig in the state’s legislature
as he
arrives in Springfield, IL to practice law. With all of his possessions
under his
arms in two saddlebags, he is quickly given a place to stay by a
womanizing
young bachelor who becomes his friend and close confidant. Lincoln
builds
a life and begins friendships with the town’s top lawyers and
politicians. He
attends elegant dances and meets an independent-minded young woman from
a high-society Kentucky family, and after a brisk courtship, becomes
engaged.
But, as time passes and uncertainty creeps in, young Lincoln is forced
to battle a dark cloud of depression brought on
by a chain of defeats and failures culminating into a nervous breakdown
that threatens his life and sanity. This cloud of
dark depression Lincoln calls “The Hypo.”
Dense crosshatching and an attention to detail help bring together this completely original telling of a man driven
by an irrepressible desire to pull himself up by his bootstraps, overcome all obstacles, and become the person he strives
to be. All the while unknowingly laying the foundation of character he would use as one of America’s greatest presidents."
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