A Drifting Life Hardback
by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Hardback
Description
The epic autobiography of a manga master 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 1945 to June 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, the manga artist Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Apollo's Song, Ode to Kirihito, Buddha)--with whom Tatsumi eventually became a peer and, at times, a stylistic rival.
As with his short-story collection, A Drifting Life is designed by Adrian Tomine.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:840 pages, black and white illustrations throughout
- Publisher:Drawn and Quarterly
- Publication Date:28/04/2009
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- ISBN:9781897299746
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:840 pages, black and white illustrations throughout
- Publisher:Drawn and Quarterly
- Publication Date:28/04/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781897299746
