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A drifting life
- Title
- A drifting life / Yoshihiro Tatsumi ; [edited, designed, and lettered by Adrian Tomine ; translated by Taro Nettleton].
- Author
- Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935-2015.
- Publication
- Montreal, Quebec : Drawn and Quarterly, 2009.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 10-3671 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 855 p. : chiefly ill.; 23 cm.
- 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 whom Tatsumi eventually became peers and, at times, stylistic rivals" -- from publisher's web site.
- Subject
- Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935-2015
- Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935-2015 > Childhood and youth
- Cartoonists > Family relationships > Japan > Comic books, strips, etc
- Cartoonists > Japan > Biography
- Cartoonists > Japan > Comic books, strips, etc
- Comic books, strips, etc. > Japan > Translations into English
- Japan > Social life and customs > 1945- > Comic books, strips, etc
- Genre/Form
- Graphic novels.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-3671
- ISBN
- 1897299745 (pbk.)
- 9781897299746 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 251210338
- Author
- Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935-2015.
- Title
- A drifting life / Yoshihiro Tatsumi ; [edited, designed, and lettered by Adrian Tomine ; translated by Taro Nettleton].
- Imprint
- Montreal, Quebec : Drawn and Quarterly, 2009.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Added Author
- Nettleton, Taro.Tomine, Adrian, 1974-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-3671