Description
| Product ID: | 9780224099370 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Art of Flying |
| Authors: | Author: Antonio Altarriba, Adrian West, Kim |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Classic European style / tradition comic books, Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating When published in 2009, The Art of Flying was hailed as a landmark in the history of the graphic novel in Spain for its deeply touching synthesis of individual and collective memories. When published in 2009, The Art of Flying was hailed as a landmark in the history of the graphic novel in Spain for its deeply touching synthesis of individual and collective memories. A deeply personal testament, Altarriba’s account of what led his father to commit suicide at the age of ninety is a detective novel of sorts, one that traces his father’s life from an impoverished childhood in Aragon, to service with Franco’s army in the Civil war, escape to join the anarchist FAI, exile in France when the Republicans are defeated, to return to Spain in 1949 and the stultifying existence to which Republican sympathisers were consigned under Francoism. |
| Imprint Name: | Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-05-07 |
