329 pages
English language
Published 2009 by W.W. Norton & Co..
4 stars
(1 review)
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 throat cancer and was expected to die. David Small, in Stitches, re-creates a life story that might have been imaged by Kafka. Readers will be riveted by his journey from speechless victim, subjected to x-rays by his radiologist father and scolded by his withholding mother, to his decision to flee his home with nothing more than dreams of becoming an artist.
Subjects
- Small, David, -- 1945- -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Artists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Children's stories -- Illustrations -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Children's stories -- Authorship -- Comic books, strips, etc