Stitches : A Memoir

English

ISBN: 0393068579

EAN: 9780393068573

Category: Comics & Graphic Novels / General/Fiction / Biographical/

Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Release Date: 09/08/2009

Synopsis: The prize-winning childrens author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. 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 throat cancer and was expected to die. Small, a prize-winning childrens author, re-creates a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. Readers will be riveted by his journey from speechless victim, subjected to X-rays by his radiologist father and scolded by his withholding and tormented mother, to his decision to flee his home at sixteen with nothing more than dreams of becoming an artist. Recalling Running with Scissors with its ability to evoke the trauma of a childhood lost, Stitches will transform adolescent and adult readers alike with its deeply liberating vision.

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Stitches : A Memoir

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 7.4 inches

Length: 9.3 inches

Weight: 26.38 oz

Pages: 336