Description
| Product ID: | 9780224079204 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IN |
| Title: | Epileptic |
| Authors: | Author: David B |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction, Sociology: family and relationships, Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions, Graphic novels: literary & memoirs, Sociology: family & relationships, Coping with illness & specific conditions |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Presents a story of the author's brother's battle with epilepsy. In this book, the author delves into his own complex emotions and his family's troubled history, as well as his own youthful fantasy life. He also points his description of the family journey from one attempted cure to another, including acupuncture, spiritualism and macrobiotics. The most acclaimed European graphic novel of the last ten years, Epileptic is David B.''s story of his brother''s battle with epilepsy - but it turns into a penetrating and sometimes lacerating self-examination on the author''s part, as he delves into his own complex emotions and his family''s troubled history, as well as his own youthful fantasy life. Particularly pointed is his description of the family journey from one attempted cure to another, including acupuncture, spiritualism and macrobiotics. |
| Imprint Name: | Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-03-23 |
