Things to Do in A Retirement Home Trailer Park . when you're 29 and unemployed

Wright, Aneurin

ISBN 10: 1908434090 / ISBN 13: 9781908434098

Verlag: Myriad Editions, 2008

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Abebooks474402

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A tour-de-force and eight years in the making, this is a powerful, superbly drawn and deeply moving portrait of a young man coming to terms with his dying father, and with his own life, as he takes care of the old man in his final months. When Nye's father phones to wish him a happy birthday, and reveals he has been 'certified for hospice', Nye slumps down on the nearest doorstep in shock. Unemployment means that he is free to move into the trailer park where his father lives and assume the role of chief carer. Their daily schedule of pill counting and medical checks unfolds into an extraordinary world where the protagonist is a minotaur, his father a rhinoceros, social workers are sea turtles and mobile homes move atop gigantic elephants. An emotive, tender, well-drawn novel by Aneurin (Nye) Wright.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Aneurin (Nye) Wright was born in rural Idaho, USA, the son of a West Texan architect and a London writer. He earned a BA in English Literature from Yale and a BFA in Illustration and Communication Design from the Pratt Institute. He was the animation director for the 'Short History of the United States' cartoon sequence in Michael Moore's Academy Award-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine. For over two years, Wright drew a weekly strip for the Waterstone's Blog called Sprout's Bookclub. In it, the great authors of the past travel through a wormhole in space and time to the present to pitch themselves and their work directly to the readership of the future: a five-month-old baby girl named Sprout. His graphic memoir Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park was published to critical acclaim by Myriad in 2012. His graphic novel Noni's Wedding will be published by Myriad in 2021. Wright lives in Brighton with his graphic designer wife and daughter Sprout.

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Titel: Things to Do in A Retirement Home Trailer ...
Verlag: Myriad Editions
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: New