David Small is the recipient of the Caldecott Medal, the Christopher Medal, and the E. B. White Award for his picture books, which include Imogene’s Antlers, The Gardener, and So, You Want to Be President? He and his wife, the writer Sarah Stewart, live in Michigan.
Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir.
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 cancer and was expected to die.
In Stitches, Small, the award-winning children’s illustrator and author, re-creates this terrifying event in a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. As the images painfully tumble out, one by one, we gain a ringside seat at a gothic family drama where David―a highly anxious yet supremely talented child―all too often became the unwitting object of his parents’ buried frustration and rage.
Believing that they were trying to do their best, David’s parents did just the reverse. Edward Small, a Detroit physician, who vented his own anger by hitting a punching bag, was convinced that he could cure his young son’s respiratory problems with heavy doses of radiation, possibly causing David’s cancer. Elizabeth, David’s mother, tyrannically stingy and excessively scolding, ran the Small household under a cone of silence where emotions, especially her own, were hidden.
Depicting this coming-of-age story with dazzling, kaleidoscopic images that turn nightmare into fairy tale, Small tells us of his journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to the troubled teen whose risky decision to run away from home at sixteen―with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist―will resonate as the ultimate survival statement.
A silent movie masquerading as a book, Stitches renders a broken world suddenly seamless and beautiful again. Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award (Young Adult); finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (Best Writer/Artist: Nonfiction; Best Reality-Based Work).
發表於2024-06-02
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作者戴維•斯摩爾通過繪本的方式嚮我們栩栩生動地敘述瞭自己童年的經曆,同時讓我們窺見美國的二十世紀五十年代——人們心存戰爭的恐懼,復蘇經濟,堅信科學能夠解決一切問題的歲月。繪本中的主人翁戴維是那個時代的試驗品,也是一個缺失愛的傢庭的犧牲品。 身為...
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評分作者用最真誠的形式,去把自己和周遭的環境錶達齣來,並沒有歇斯底裏的仇恨,也沒有過多自憐自愛,總體上,是客觀的,獨特的畫風,不一樣的視角,這不是一本適閤漫畫迷讀的曆險記故事,這隻是一個人對過往的一種最真實的流露
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圖書標籤: 歐美漫畫 美國 繪本 社會學/人類學 傳記 漫畫 graphic_novel comics
悲劇童年~
評分極度影像化的敘事風格就像電影一樣,對情緒的精準把控+一流的劇本
評分悲劇童年~
評分acknowledging the truth instead of escaping from it brings up not just the sadness but also the ultimate right solution. Very nice book.
評分Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world. -- Edward Dahlberg
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