David Small is the recipient of the Caldecott Medal, the Christopher Medal, and the E. B. White Award for his picture books, which include Imogene’s Antlers, The Gardener, and So, You Want to Be President? He and his wife, the writer Sarah Stewart, live in Michigan.
Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir.
One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die.
In Stitches, Small, the award-winning children’s illustrator and author, re-creates this terrifying event in a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. As the images painfully tumble out, one by one, we gain a ringside seat at a gothic family drama where David―a highly anxious yet supremely talented child―all too often became the unwitting object of his parents’ buried frustration and rage.
Believing that they were trying to do their best, David’s parents did just the reverse. Edward Small, a Detroit physician, who vented his own anger by hitting a punching bag, was convinced that he could cure his young son’s respiratory problems with heavy doses of radiation, possibly causing David’s cancer. Elizabeth, David’s mother, tyrannically stingy and excessively scolding, ran the Small household under a cone of silence where emotions, especially her own, were hidden.
Depicting this coming-of-age story with dazzling, kaleidoscopic images that turn nightmare into fairy tale, Small tells us of his journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to the troubled teen whose risky decision to run away from home at sixteen―with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist―will resonate as the ultimate survival statement.
A silent movie masquerading as a book, Stitches renders a broken world suddenly seamless and beautiful again. Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award (Young Adult); finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (Best Writer/Artist: Nonfiction; Best Reality-Based Work).
戴维是不幸的,出生时呼吸系统与鼻子都有问题,身为医生的父亲认为多照射X光线可以治愈他的疾病。400次射线照射,一个不到一岁的的孩子,结局就是癌症。喉癌,就这样不明不白的植在他的身上。同性恋的母亲,知道自己得癌症对自己强作亲切的父亲,嘲笑自己的兄长,逐渐佝偻瘦弱...
评分速写画的真生动,没个画面衔接得太舒服了,看书时有种在看电影的感觉。不愧是得过两次凯迪克奖的画家,作品是最有说服力的。 这孩子太可怜了-- 妈妈成天心事重重,在厨房整理碗盘时总是把橱柜弄得砰然作响;爸爸最大的乐趣就是下班后在地下室猛击沙袋;哥哥则是在房...
评分喧嚣拥挤的书店里,没有座位完全站立在那里读书,但是完全被这本书的深刻写实灰暗的基调吸引了,当然,起初吸引我的是典型的美式写实漫画的画面,因为这样的画面在浦泽直树大神《MONSTER》中关于511福利院中风格的描述相符合,心想找到了浦泽风格的出处~~ 这本书...
评分作者用最真诚的形式,去把自己和周遭的环境表达出来,并没有歇斯底里的仇恨,也没有过多自怜自爱,总体上,是客观的,独特的画风,不一样的视角,这不是一本适合漫画迷读的历险记故事,这只是一个人对过往的一种最真实的流露
评分好的感觉很压抑,不知道他妈妈为什么不爱他,童年的阴影是一辈子都挥之不去的。里面的插图让人看的感觉心里很凉,他感觉到的心理医生对他的“好”,其实也只是心理医生赚钱的生存的一种方式。喜欢约翰爸爸,虽然不是亲的,但是感觉对小戴维还是很温暖的。他的哥哥讲的比较少,...
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评分作者戏剧专业,画画很有镜头感,阴影的渲染留下深刻印象。一个用x光照呼吸有问题的婴儿200-400次来治疗的时代。
评分妙
评分Fantastic, heartbreaking and groundbreaking.
评分视觉语言及其流畅的童年血泪史
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