Stitches : a memoir --
Small, David, 1945-2009
Book
Review: "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 children's 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Main title:
Stitches : a memoir -- / David Small.
Author:
Work:
Edition:
1st ed.
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.
Collation:
329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780393068573 (hbk)0393068579 (hbk)97803930685730393068579
Dewey class:
818.5409B
LC class:
PN6727.S54465
Language:
English
Subject:
Small, David, 1945- -- Comic books, strips, etcAuthors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etcArtists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etcChildren's stories -- Illustrations -- Comic books, strips, etcChildren's stories -- Authorship -- Comic books, strips, etc
BRN:
204486
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | Young Adult Graphic Novel | YA GRA SMAL | Available |