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A drifting life

Yoshihiro Tatsumi ; [edited, designed, and lettered by Adrian Tomine] ; [translated by Taro Nettleton]. -- 1st ed. -- Drawn & Quarterly Publications, 2009. <BB40120634>
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A drifting life

Yoshihiro Tatsumi ; [edited, designed, and lettered by Adrian Tomine] ; [translated by Taro Nettleton]. -- 1st ed. -- Drawn & Quarterly Publications, 2009. <BB40120634>
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title and statement of responsibility area A drifting life / Yoshihiro Tatsumi ; [edited, designed, and lettered by Adrian Tomine] ; [translated by Taro Nettleton]
edition area 1st ed
publication,distribution,etc.,area Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly Publications
publication,distribution,etc.,area New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux [distributor] , 2009
physical description area 855 p. : chiefly ill., port. ; 23 cm
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ISBN 9781897299746
note Summary: "Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The push man and other stories, Abandon the old in Tokyo, and Good-bye--originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever--the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic novel movement. A Drifting Life is his monumental memoir eleven years in the making, beginning with his experiences as a child in Osaka, growing up as part of a country burdened by the shadows of World War II. Spanning fifteen years from August of 1945 to June of 1960, Tatsumi's stand-in protagonist, Hiroshi, faces his father's financial burdens and his parents' failing marriage, his jealous brother's deteriorating health, and the innumerable pitfalls that await him in the competitive manga market of mid-twentieth-century Japan. He dreams of following in the considerable footsteps of his idol, manga artist Osamu Tezuka (Astro boy, Apollo's song, Ode to Kirihito, Buddha)--with
NCID BA91225153
text language code English
author link *辰巳, ヨシヒロ(1935-)||タツミ, ヨシヒロ <AU20034603>
author link Tomine, Adrian, 1974- <AU20042773>
author link Nettleton, Taro <>
classification LCC:PN6790.J33
classification DC22:741.5952
subject headings Cartoonists -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc
subject headings Cartoonists -- Family relationships -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc
subject headings Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1945- -- Comic books, strips, etc
subject headings Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- Translations into English
subject headings Graphic novels
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