TY - BOOK AU - Ferrandez,Jacques AU - Smith,Sandra AU - Camus,Albert TI - The stranger SN - 9781681771359 U1 - 741.5 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York, NY PB - Pegasus Books Ltd. KW - Murder KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - Alienation (Social psychology) KW - Algeria KW - Murderers KW - Misanthropy KW - Existential ethics KW - Social life and customs KW - 20th century KW - Graphic novels KW - lcgft N1 - Based on the novel by Albert Camus; Originally published in French in 2013 by Gallimard N2 - The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will once again blind the calm, reserved Meursault as he walks along a deserted beach a few days later--leading him to commit an irreparable act ER -