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Our Cancer Yearby Pekar, Harvey; Brabner, Joyce
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Book DescriptionRunning Press. PAPERBACK. 1568580118 We sell only brand new merchandise! . New. Media Reviews"Pekar and Brabner allowed the artist, Frank Stack, inside their lives as intimately as a television documentary where the participants forget the cameras are there. The visceral artwork presents the drama at an emotional pitch that a straight narrative might miss." -- Patricia J. Wagner, Bloomsbury Review "'Our Cancer Year' displays the graphic novel medium at its sophisticated best, and, eschewing the uplifting cliches of the 'disease novel', Pekar, Brabner, and Stack have demonstrated that comics created with intelligence and unflinching candor can be deeply moving literature." -- Review of Contemporary Fiction Publisher NotesIt was the year of Desert Storm that Harvey Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner, discovered Harvey had cancer. Pekar, a man who has made a profession out of chronicling the Kafkaesque absurdities of an ordinary life - if any life is ordinary - suddenly found himself incapacitated. But he had a better-than-average chance to beat cancer and he took it - kicking, screaming and complaining all the way. The Pekar/Brabner coalition draws upon this and other trials to paint a portrait of a man beset with fears real and imagined - who survives. Our Cancer Year, Pekar and Brabner's first book-length comic, is the most human of stories. It is a true and unflinching account of two people battling cancer. But it is also a record of what happened to seven teenagers - young activists from Cambodia and the Middle East, friends of Joyce's - and two difficult adults, as Operation Desert Shield turned into Operation Desert Storm. Other Recommended Books
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