Stitches
of David Small
Description
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 childrenâs 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 Davidâa highly anxious yet supremely talented childâall too often became the unwitting object of his parentsâ buried frustration and rage.Believing that they were trying to do their best, Davidâs 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 sonâs respiratory problems with heavy doses of radiation, possibly causing Davidâs cancer. Elizabeth, Davidâs 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 sixteenâwith nothing more than the dream of becoming an artistâwill resonate as the ultimate survival statemen.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 329 pages
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date September 8th 2009
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780393068573
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['Detroit, Michigan (United States)']
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