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Building Stories

Building Stories

Author(s): Chris Ware

Location(s): Chicago

Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories

Era(s): Modern

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In Chris Ware’s own words, ‘Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life: a couple who wonder if they can bear each other’s company for another minute: and finally an elderly woman who never married and is the building’s landlady…’

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The 14 stories can be read in any order and, together, tell of a brownstone apartment block in suburban Chicago and its three sets of tenants: an angst-ridden mother with a weak heart and...

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