Wally Gropius

By Tim Hensley

Wally is the human Dow Jones, the heir to a vast petrochemical conglomerate. When the elder Thaddeus Gropius confronts Wally with the boilerplate plot ultimatum that he must marry "the saddest girl in the world" or be disinherited, a yarn unravels that is part screwball comedy and part unhinged parable on the lucrativeness of changing your identity Hensley's dialogue is witty, lyrical, sampled, dada, and elliptical--all in the service of a very bizarre mystery. There's sex, violence, rock and roll, intrigue, and betrayal--all brought home in Hensley's truly inimitable style Created during an era when another well-off "W" was stuffing the coffers of the morbidly solvent, Wally Gropius transforms futile daydreams and nightmares into the absurdity of capital.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606993550
• ISBN13: 9781606993552
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 59 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.9" x 12.4"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher