A drifting life
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A drifting life
Drawn & Quarterly Publications , Farrar, Straus and Giroux [distributor], 2009
1st ed
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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
