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Mother Come Home

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ISBN-10: 1560979739

ISBN-13: 9781560979739

Edition: 2009

Authors: Paul Hornschemeier, Thomas Tennant

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Back in print: the debut graphic novel from the author of The Three Paradoxes. Mother, Come Home is Paul Hornschemeier's piercing graphic-novel debut: it secured the cartoonist's place as one of his generation's most skillful and ambitious practitioners. Mother, Come Home quietly studies the inner lives of recently widowed David and his 7-year-old son, Thomas. Thomas struggles desperately to keep up appearances while his father, a professor of symbolic logic, becomes lost in abstractions. Father and son begin to retreat into their fantasies, but only one emerges. Mother, Come Home is masterfully drawn: Eisner-, Harvey-and Ignatz-Award-nominated Hornschemeier's controlled brushwork is clean,…    
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Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Publication date: 5/5/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Paul Hornschemeier lives in Chicago, IL, with his fianc�e, Emily. He is the author of several graphic novels, including Mother, Come Home, Let Us Be Perfectly Clear, The Three Paradoxes, All and Sundry and Forlorn Funnies.