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1 online resource |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Summary |
In the wake of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Art Spiegelman's Maus comes cartoonist Carol Tyler's multigenerational graphic memoir, Soldier's Heart. The author chronicles her fraught relationship with her father, Charles, a WWII veteran, and how the war affected their lives through both childhood and adulthood. Soldier's Heart is also a tribute to servicemen and women, dramatizing the trauma of the war on the Greatest Generation and those who followed. Tyler's ink and watercolor narrative is in turns sprawling and gimlet-eyed: compassionate and enraged. Her father's memories are woven into her own, which span her Catholic, Midwestern childhood; her troubled marriage; her daughter's struggles; and her efforts to care for her aging parents. Even though Tyler's work has an accessible, homemade feel (the organizing metaphor of the book is a photo album with "snapshots" of Tyler family life), Soldier's Heart is a sophisticated graphic work about war, love, and loss. |
Audience |
Rated PA |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Subject |
Tyler, Carol -- Family -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Family relationships -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Genre |
Electronic books.
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Graphic novels.
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Added Author |
Tyler, Carol.
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hoopla digital.
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ISBN |
9781606998960 (electronic bk.) |
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160699896X (electronic bk.) |
Music No. |
MWT11968396 |
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