Research Catalog

Title

Soldier's heart : the campaign to understand my WWII veteran father : a daughter's memoir / by Carol Tyler.

Author

Tyler, Carol

Publication

• Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, [2015]
• ©2015

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

362 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 22 x 27 cm

Summary

The author chronicles her fraught relationship with her father, Charles, a WWII veteran, and how the war affected their lives through both childhood and adulthood. Soldier's heart is also a tribute to servicemen and women, dramatizing the trauma of the war on the Greatest Generation and those who followed. Tyler's ink and watercolor narrative is in turns sprawling and gimlet-eyed: compassionate and enraged. Her father's memories are woven into her own, which span her Catholic, Midwestern childhood; her troubled marriage; her daughter's struggles; and her efforts to care for her aging parents. Even though Tyler's work has an accessible, homemade feel (the organizing metaphor of the book is a photo album with snapshots of Tyler family life).

Subjects

• Tyler, Carol > Family > Comic books, strips, etc
• Autobigraphies
• Fathers and daughters > United States > Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels
• World War, 1939-1945 > Veterans > Family relationships > United States > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

• Graphic novels.
• Autobigraphies.

Contents

I. A good and decent man -- II. Collateral damage -- III. Soldier's heart -- IV. Epilogue.

Call Number

JFF 16-292

ISBN

• 9781606998960
• 160699896X

OCLC

933300137

Author

Tyler, Carol, author.

Title

Soldier's heart : the campaign to understand my WWII veteran father : a daughter's memoir / by Carol Tyler.

Publisher

Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFF 16-292