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Notes from a Defeatist
Joe Sacco
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Description for Notes from a Defeatist
paperback. Collects stories such as 'When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People', 'More Women, More Children, More Quickly', and 'How I Loved the War'. Num Pages: 216 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; FX; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 271 x 182 x 40. Weight in Grams: 510.
Sacco paved the way for Palestine with his powerful triptych on modern war and its innocent victims, originally published in his comic Yahoo and collected here: 'When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People' chronicles the effect of aerial warfare on civilians, from Germany and Japan in World War II to Libya in 1986; 'More Women, More Children, More Quickly' is written from a victim's perspective, as Sacco illustrates his mother's harrowing experiences during Italian and German WWII raids on Malta; and 'How I Loved the War', Defeatist's centrepiece, is Sacco's impassioned but sardonic reflection on the Gulf War, and the ... Read more
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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224072700
SKU
V9780224072700
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99-99
About Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco, one of the world’s foremost cartoonists, is widely hailed as the creator of war-reportage comics. He is the author of Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, The Fixer, Notes from a Defeatist , Footnotes in Gaza and Journalism, all published by Jonathan Cape.
Reviews for Notes from a Defeatist
Sacco is formidably talented. A meticulous reporter... and a gifted artist whose richly nuanced drawings tread a delicate path between cartoonishness and naturalism
Independent
Sacco's greatest achievement is to have so poignantly depicted oppression and horror in a form that manages to be both disarming and disquieting
Observer
One of the most original cartoonists of the ... Read more
Independent
Sacco's greatest achievement is to have so poignantly depicted oppression and horror in a form that manages to be both disarming and disquieting
Observer
One of the most original cartoonists of the ... Read more