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084    Heq.05|2kssb/8 
092 0  Serie|bengelska 
100 1  Small, David|4aut 
245 10 Stitches :|ba memoir /|cDavid Small 
264  1 New York :|bW. W. Norton & Company,|c2009 
300    329 sidor|billustrationer|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke 
500    Mit eingedruckter Widmung: To Mark Stewart Guin and to my 
       brother, Ted 
500    National Book Award Finalist 
500    Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: W. W. Norton & 
       Company|| New York · London. - Die Hardcover-Ausg. ist 
       2009 erschienen. - First published as a Norton paperback 
       2010 
520    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 
600  0 Small, David|d1945-|vComic books, strips, etc 
600 17 Small, David|d1945-|2gnd 
650  0 Authors, American|y20th century|vBiography|vComic books, 
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650  0 Medicine|vComic books, strips, etc 
650  7 Författare|2sao 
650  7 Medicin|2sao 
650  7 Cancer|2sao 
653  0 Small, David, 1945|a-Comic books, strips, etc 
653  0 Authors, American|a20th century|aBiography|aComic books, 
       strips, etc 
653  0 Artists|aUnited States|aBiography|aComic books, strips, 
       etc 
653  7 Comic|2gnd 
653  7 Comic|2gnd 
653  7 Belletristische Darstellung|2gnd 
655  7 Tecknade serier|2saogf 
700 1  Guin, Mark Stewart|eBeteiligteR|4asn 
700 1  Small, Edward|eBeteiligteR|4asn 
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