Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Essex County Vol. 3 The Country Nurse by Jeff Lemire ISBN 13: 9781891830952. Jeff Lemire is a prolific, award-winning comic book writer and artist from Ontario, who's known for creating literary stories depicting the frailties, fears, and hopes of the human condition. He's worked extensively with all the major comic book publishers, penning well-received runs on Animal Man , Green Arrow , Hawkeye , and Old Man Logan for DC and Marvel. His creator-owned works, which are even more highly aclaimed, include The Underwater Welder, The Essex County Trilogy, and Lost Dogs from ; Descender , A.D. After Death (with Scott Snyder,) and Royal City , from Image; and Sweet Tooth , Trillium , and The Nobody from Vertigo. His original Roughneck was published by Simon and Schuster in 2017. Jeff won the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist in 2008 for Essex County , and again in 2013 for The Underwater Welder and Sweet Tooth . He's been a nominee for multiple Eisner awards, a Harvery Award, and the . Descender and The Underwater Welder have both been optioned for major motion pictures. He lives in Toronto with his family. From School Library Journal : Grade 10 Up—This final volume in a trilogy shifts the focus to Anne Quenneville, a traveling nurse. Her character primarily works as a device, reintroducing readers to the disparate members of the Lebeuf family. Lester, no longer donning his toy superhero cape, is a little more grown up but seems lonely, while Jimmy continues to hide himself in his job at the town filling station. Anne decides to help the family heal by urging Jimmy to step forward and finally get to know his young son Lester, giving more formal answers to questions of lineage and familial tragedy that were only hinted at in the earlier books. Lemire's cartoonlike art is more cinematic than ever here, making full poetic use of wintry Canadian landscapes to force readers to pause and feel the emotions of the characters. A side story features Lawrence, a Lebeuf ancestor who grew up in a desolate orphanage managed by a nun and a gruff caretaker. Although these flashbacks don't have a direct impact on the modern-day Lebeufs, the past events do bring a deeper layer of history to the family. The first two volumes worked exceptionally well as stand-alone stories. While Lemire still creates memorable moments in this finale, readers will want to know what happened in the previous tales to appreciate this one fully. Well written and beautifully drawn, this wonderful close to a powerful trilogy is ideal for fans of realistic stories in comics.— Matthew L. Moffett, Pohick Regional Library, Burke, VA Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Jeff Lemire's Essex County Volume 3: The Country Nurse. Essex County Volume 3: The Country Nurse is the concluding volume in a trilogy of graphic novels by Jeff Lemire ( Lost Dogs ). The Essex County books are set in an imaginary version of Lemire’s native soil of Essex County, Ontario . Characters from the previous Essex County graphic novels, Tales from the Farm (Vol. 1) and Ghost Stories (Vol. 2), appear in The Country Nurse. The Country Nurse focuses on Anne Quenneville , a home health/traveling nurse who drives across the faming communities that make up Essex County to serve her patients. A widow, Anne is alone (except for her wayward son, whom we never see) and relies on her patients to be a second family. One of her favorite patients is Lou Lebeuf . Anne’s bond with Lou is actually a connection to Essex County’s past, going back to the early 20th Century, and as she completes her visits one day, her story delves into the history of Essex County and reunites the tattered remnants of a grieving boy’s family. There is a painterly quality to Jeff Lemire’s art. Fluid line work unites with inviting pools of ink to form forlorn landscapes that make Lemire seem like a rural Edward Hopper. Heart-wrenching silence permeates the pages of The Country Nurse , just as it did in Tales from the Farm and Ghost Stories. In all this heartache, however, Lemire creates the kind of beauty that art can invent from sorrow. He finds a balance between the simple exquisiteness of stark rural landscapes and a richness of personality and humanity that emanates from the evocative cartoon faces of his characters. In the end, what really makes these novels so wonderful is what Lemire does with this emphasis on the anger and sadness that comes from losing a loved one and the regret that comes from shattered relationships and bonds. With The Country Nurse , Lemire uses the quiet Anne Quenneville to heal and bring together. Sometimes, Anne has to be a rock and pound on her people, and other times, she quietly knits the tears in the family fabric with no one the wiser. Jeff Lemire, however, can’t get past us. We know that The Country Nurse is the closing chapter in a truly exceptional graphic novel trilogy. Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm. In Southwestern Ontario, Canada, a recently orphaned boy, named Lester , lives on his Uncle’s farm and struggles with loneliness and grief and finds it difficult to bond with his uncle. When he completes his chores on the farm, Lester escapes into a private fantasy world in which he is a superhero who fights alien invaders. Lester’s relationship with his Uncle Ken Papineau grows more strained as the seasons pass, but Lester befriends Jimmy Lebeuf , the owner of the local town’s gas station. The hulking Lebeuf is a former hockey star injured in a game and now considered to be mentally damaged by the incident. It is Lebeuf, however, who befriends Lester and shares the lonely boy’s fantasy world., much to Uncle Ken’s chagrin. Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm is the first in a trilogy of graphic novels by Jeff Lemire ( Lost Dogs ), which are set in a fictionalized version of Lemire’s native soil of Essex County, Ontario. The story is a familiar one. It’s a sort of love triangle in which a boy tries to find companionship and acceptance from two adult men. One is the father or male relative responsible for the boy’s upbringing and care – in this case Lester’s Uncle Ken, the older brother of Lester’s mother (who recently died of cancer). The other is the symbolic or surrogate father who supports the boy spiritually, a pal who is fun to be with but has no responsibility in caring for the boy’s material needs and rearing – in this case Jimmy Lebeuf. Lemire doesn’t make any obvious judgments when it comes to the decisions that Lester makes about love and friendship. His narrative is more about Lester’s well being and self-discovery. In fact, Tales from the Farm is an adventure story about discovery, in which Lester the hero gains a wealth of the kind of knowledge that will serve him well later in life. He’ll discover the loss of his mother’s love doesn’t mean that he isn’t loved. He even figures out just how long he needs to hang onto his interior life, and he will slowly figure out more about his past. Lemire’s art has a dark and heavy fluid-like quality. This is perfect for tales based on childhood recollections, which are really flowing dreams, always changing slightly and adaptable to whatever the dreamer’s needs are at the time. In a way, Tales from the Farm is similar to R. Kikuo Johnson’s debut graphic novel, Night Fisher ( Books). Although about the life of a boy at a specific age, Tales from the Farm is a broad universal tale with which many young adult readers may identify. It will also pull softly, but urgently at the heart of any man who remembers being a kid that needed a strong, reassuring hand of friendship. "Essex County" Creator Jeff Lemire Posts CBC Series Adapt's Pilot Script Cover. Originally announced (and covered by Bleeding Cool) back in 2015, CBC 's television adaptation of award-winning writer/artist Jeff Lemire 's graphic novel trilogy Essex County is actually breaking some news – and it comes directly from Lemire. Taking to Twitter on Thursday, the writer/artist posted the front page to the script for the pilot episode – which means we're going out on a limb here to say that we think that means there's a pilot script now in play (at SDCC 2018, Lemire revealed that he would pen the pilot after not feeling that the series worked with another writer). Published from 2008 to 2009 from Top Shelf Publishing , Lemire's Essex County trilogy includes "Tales from the Farm" (2008), "Ghost Stories" (2008), and "The Country Nurse" (2009): Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears? What turns two brothers from an unstoppable team into a pair of bitterly estranged loners? How does the simple-hearted care of one middle-aged nurse reveal the scars of an entire community, and can anything heal the wounds caused by a century of deception? Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire pays tribute to his roots with Essex County, an award-winning trilogy of graphic novels set in an imaginary version of his hometown, the eccentric farming community of Essex County, Ontario, Canada. In Essex County, Lemire crafts an intimate study of one community through the years, and a tender meditation on family, memory, grief, secrets, and reconciliation. With the lush, expressive inking of a young artist at the height of his powers, Lemire draws us in and sets us free. Originally optioned by First Generation Films ( FGF ), the series is executive produced by Lemire, Ted Adams, Chris Staros , and FGF's Christina Piovesan . FGF's Vice-President of Scripted Programming Julie Di Cresce will oversee the project. The graphic novel series earned a number of awards during its run, including the American Library Association's Alex Award, the Doug Wright Award, and the Joe Shuster Award. The Collected Essex County. Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The best graphic novel you will read. Ever. This completed series was originally a 3-part volume first published in 2007. Lemire has quickly grown to being my favorite graphic novelist writer, author, creator. He is downright raw and dark. In the introduction, written by Garth Ellis, he's compared to Raymond Carver and I've never heard a better description. Thoughts to come. His books take a while to digest. ( ) This was a great comic/graphic novel about where I live. To see some of the names I recognize, places etc. was rather cool. There were 3 stories told and my favourite was Ghost Stories. This was a story of 2 brothers who play hockey. They both end up in Toronto playing for a semi-pro team. The younger one returns home to the farm, gets married and has a child. The other, who has feeling for the wife and there is some inuendo that there was a one-time fling, remains in Toronto feeling guilty. He returns for the funeral of his mother, then returns again after an accident kills his brother and niece. Lots of Canadiana, rural life experiences and heartwrenching stories. ( )