The Push Man and Other Stories
Author | : Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
Publisher | : Drawn and Quarterly |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-04-10 |
ISBN-13 | : 1770460764 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781770460768 |
Rating | : 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Push Man and Other Stories written by Yoshihiro Tatsumi and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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