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BOOK
Title Stitches : a memoir / David Small
Author Small, David
Imprint New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

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Descript 329 sidor illustrationer 24 cm
Note One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die. In Stitches, Small, the award-winning children's illustrator and author, re-creates this terrifying event in a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. As the images painfully tumble out, one by one, we gain a ringside seat at a gothic family drama where David, a highly anxious yet supremely talented child, all too often became the unwitting object of his parents' buried frustration and rage. Believing that they were trying to do their best, David's parents did just the reverse. Edward Small, a Detroit physician who vented his own anger by hitting a punching bag, was convinced that he could cure his young son's respiratory problems with heavy doses of radiation, possibly causing David's cancer. Elizabeth, David's mother, tyrannically stingy and excessively scolding, ran the Small household under a cone of silence where emotions, especially her own, were hidden. Depicting this coming-of-age story with dazzling, kaleidoscopic images that turn nightmare into fairy tale, Small tells us of his journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to the troubled teen whose risky decision to run away from home at sixteen, with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist, will resonate as the ultimate survival statement. A silent movie masquerading as a book, Stitches renders a broken world suddenly seamless and beautiful again
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Mit eingedruckter Widmung: To Mark Stewart Guin and to my brother, Ted
National Book Award Finalist
Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: W. W. Norton & Company|| New York · London. - Die Hardcover-Ausg. ist 2009 erschienen. - First published as a Norton paperback 2010
Subject Författare
Medicin
Cancer
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Tecknade serier
Small, David 1945-
Medicine -- Comic books, strips, etc
Small, David 1945- -- Comic books, strips, etc
Comic
Small, David, 1945 -Comic books, strips, etc
Authors, American 20th century Biography Comic books, strips, etc
Artists United States Biography Comic books, strips, etc
Comic
Belletristische Darstellung
Classmark 810
Heq.05
Alt Auth Guin, Mark Stewart BeteiligteR
Small, Edward BeteiligteR
ISBN/ISSN 9780393068573 inbunden
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