Joyland

How Punks Are Saving the World with DIY Ethics, Skills, and Values

By: Emily Schultz, Nate Powell (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 1 December 2011

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295 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.86

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“Like a Reagan-era Ice Storm, Emily Schultz’s novel Joyland captures the confusion of adolescent sexuality in a tangle of pixelated icons via the video-game generation. Set in the summer of 1984, this book will have you thinking twice about the video-game generation and the power of pining and Pac-Man.” — Flare

Welcome to 1984 and the town of South Wakefield. Chris Lane is 14 and he’s sure that he can see the future, or at least guess what’s inside of Christie Brinkley’s mind. But he can’t foresee the closing of Joyland, the town’s only video arcade.

With the arcade’s passing comes a summer of teenage lust, violence, and a search for new entertainment. Never far away is Chris’s younger sister, Tammy, who plays spy to the events that will change the lives of her family and town forever. Joyland is a novel about the impossibility of knowing the future. Schultz bring the Cold War home in a novel set to the digital pulse of video games and the echoes of hair metal. Joyland is illustrated throughout by graphic novelist Nate Powell, whose work has been praised by Sin City creator Frank Miller as “observant, intimate cartooning [that] surgically cuts to the bone.”

BackLit bonus material includes an alternate ending and an author interview.

Industry Reviews

"Like a Reagan-era" Ice Storm", Emily Schultz's novel "Joyland "captures the confusion of adolescent sexuality in a tangle of pixillated icons via the video-game generation. Set in the summer of 1984, this book will have you thinking twice about the video-game generation and the power of pining and Pac-Man." " --Flare"
"This is recommended reading, nostalgic technicolour at its sharpest. "Joyland "maps a believable world that depicts the grit and glitz of teenaged life in the small-town 1980s." "--Matrix Magazine"
"Schultz's latest is a satire of office life, romance novels, and afterlife narratives. She has accomplished something quite remarkable here, deftly juggling all this social commentary and a rather blandly sympathetic protagonist with a sharp command of language." "--Publishers Weekly "on "Heaven Is Small"
"I loved" Joyland". Tammy Lane is the most convincing child protagonist I've encountered in years, a cross between Lynda Barry's Marlys, and Judy Blume's truth-seeking missile, Margaret." "--"R. M. Vaughn, "National Post"

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