Stitches: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (617 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393338967 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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A National Book Award finalist; winner of the ALA's Alex Award; a #1 New York Times graphic bestseller; Publishers Weekly and Washington Post Top Ten Books of the Year, Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, ALA Great Graphic Novels, Booklist Editors Choice Award, Huffington Post Great Books of 2009, Kirkus Reviews Best of 2009, Village Voice Best Graphic Novel, finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (Best Writer/Artist: Nonfiction; Best Reality-Based Work). Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been transformed into a virtual mutea vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot. From horror to hope, Small proceeds to graphically portray an almost unbelievable descent into adolescent hell and the difficult road to physical, emotional, and artistic recovery. Illustrated throughout. The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist that "breaks new ground for graphic novels" (Francois Mouly, art editor, The New Yorker). David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded c
"Wow, a Searing Memoir" according to Happy Reader. Do not let the fact that this is a graphic novel turn you off. It's not comic book/Watchman type art, this is pen and ink drawings.This is a complete story, and, I'm not exaggerating, this is one of the best autobiographies I've ever read. Most of it is told unflinchingly from the standpoint of David Small as a child, starting at age 6. His was not a happy household and the story includes a grandma, who, at one point, descends into physical abuse. I had, up to that point in the story, no sympathy with Small's mother. If she protected him from that point on from his grandmother, it isn't told. But her reaction when David said he was afraid. The most moving book I have read in a long time Anne Salazar I loved this book! It is so moving, and to think that David Small can write AND draw about his sad, tormented childhood is miraculous. I kept turning to the photo of the author on the back flap just to see his sweet smiling face, and be reassured as I read that he was going to be okay. I can barely stand to learn about child and/or animal abuse, and this is, of course, abuse in the extreme. The text is poetic and the drawings once again prove that "a picture is worth a thousand words" as they bring this family to life.David Small has illustrated several children's books, my favorite being THE LIBRARY written by his wife. I have no childre. A Powerful Message of Hope Amazon Customer Stitches is an inspiration for anyone facing the unendurable pain life sometimes throws at us; an affirmation of the strength and power of the human spirit. Fantastic art work.
I found all that really quite remarkable.: Memoirists are often asked questions about memories—the tools of their trade, in a way—but do you think memories tell the whole story?David Small: No. So, for a while, in college, I thought I was, among others, Daumier, Rembrandt, Egon Schiele and Kathe Kollwitz. I'd had enough, frankly, of living and thinking the way they had taught me to think and behave.Did I expect that this would happen? No. We shouldn't insist on it, and we should always be willing to bend.: The afterword to Stitches was unexpected, but I found I appreciated the visual reference points for you, and for your mother and father. I would drown mysel