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Title Epileptic / David B. ; [translated from the French by Kim Thompson]
Imprint New York : Pantheon Books, 2006, c2005

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 Stadsbibl:Cylindern vån 3 Tecknade serier på engelska  Serie engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
 Mediehotell  Serie engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition 1st American pbk. ed
Descript 362 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm
Note "Originally published in France in six volumes as L'ascension du haut-mal, by L'Association, Paris, 1996-2004. Volumes 1, 2, and 3 were or[i]ginally published in a single volume in English as Epileptic 1, by L'Association, Paris, in 2002"--T.p. verso
With stunning black-and-white illustrations, a noted cartoonist chronicles growing up with an epileptic older brother. The author charts his complicated relationship with his brother from childhood to adulthood, and the effects of the illness on the entire family
David B. spent an idyllic early childhood in a small town near Orléans, France, but the family's life changed abruptly when his big brother Jean-Christophe was struck with epilepsy at age eleven. In search of a cure, their parents dragged the family to acupuncturists and magnetic therapists, to mediums and macrobiotic communes, but every new cure ended in disappointment. Angry at his brother for "abandoning" him and at all the quacks who offered them false hope, the author learned to cope by drawing fantastically elaborate battle scenes, creating images that provide a window into his interior life, as well as reliving his grandfathers' experiences in both World Wars through flashbacks. An honest and horrifying portrait of the disease and of the pain and fear it sowed in the family, this graphic autobiography is also a moving depiction of one family's intricate history.--From publisher description
Subject B., David, 1959- -- Comic books, strips, etc
Brothers -- France -- Comic books, strips, etc
Brothers and sisters -- France -- Comic books, strips, etc
Epilepsy in children -- Comic books, strips, etc
France -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
Tecknade serier: drama
Tecknade serier: engelska
Tecknade serier: relationer
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Tecknade serier
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Classmark 741.5/944
Heej.05
ISBN/ISSN 0375714685
9780375714689
0375423184
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