Stitches
Subtitle: a memoir
By: David Small.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780393068573
Subjects: Small, David, -- 1945- -- Comic books, strips, etc; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc; Artists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc; Children's stories -- Illustrations -- Comic books, strips, etc; Children's stories -- Authorship -- Comic books, strips, etc
Genres: Comic books, strips, etc; Biography
Description: 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. David Small, in <i>Stitches</i>, re-creates a life story that might have been imaged 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 mother, to his decision to flee his home with nothing more than dreams of becoming an artist.
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