The Push Man and Other Stories
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2012
Summary
Thirty years before the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States, Yoshihiro Tatsumi created a library of comics that draw parallels to modern prose fiction and today’s alternative comics. The stories collected in The Push Man are simultaneously haunting, disturbing, and darkly humorous. A lone man travels the country, projecting pornographic films for private individuals while attempting to maintain a normal home life. The lives of two men become intertwined when one hires the other to observe his sexual escapades through a telescope. An auto mechanic’s obsession with a female TV personality turns fatal after a chance meeting between the two
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770460768 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770460764 |
| Author: | Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Yuji Oniki |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 165mm x 224mm |
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Critics Review
“What a revelation this book is. I’d no idea that long before writers like Haruki Murakami and Kenzo Kitakata, the work of Yoshihiro Tatsumi had so expertly peeled away the lacquered layers of Japanese social and sexual surfaces to reveal the elemental heart beneath, and with such fearless depth of feeling. Decades ahead of its time and long overdue for U.S. publication.” —Chip Kidd
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Born in 1935, Yoshihiro Tatsumi began writing and drawing comics for a sophisticated adult readership in a realistic style he called Gekiga. He has influenced generations of cartoonists and lives in Japan.
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