Houdini: The Handcuff King (Center for Cartoon Studies Presents) - Softcover

Lutes, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1368042880 ISBN 13: 9781368042888

Verlag: Little, Brown Young Readers US, 2019

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2008 YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens2008 Booklist Top Ten Graphic Novel for Youth

"Lutes and Bertozzi successfully offer a tiny snapshot as a way into a very large life."--Publishers Weekly

* "Avoiding overt, showy tricks themselves, Lutes and Bertozzi use clean, simple storytelling and crisp, clear black-and-white art to create not only a portrait of the man but also that sense of suspense and anticipation Houdini generated in his performances."--Booklist (starred review)

* "Bertozzi's illustrations are simply spectacular."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Reseña del editor:

"I have escaped out of more handcuffs, manacles, and leg shackles than any other human being living."
Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so over ninety years since his death. This is a snapshot of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous feats. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason Lutes and artist Nick Bertozzi reveal Houdini's life and influence: from the anti-Semitism Houdini fought all his life, to the adulation of the American public; from his hounding by the press, to his loving relationship with his wife Bess; from his egoism to his insecurity; from his public persona--to the secret behind his most amazing trick! And it's all in graphic form, so it's fresh, original, and unlike anything previously published about this most fascinating of American showmen.

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• Verlag: Little, Brown Young Readers US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1368042880
• ISBN 13: 9781368042888
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
• Zeichner: Bertozzi Nick