Author : John Gallant
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Bannock Beans and Black Tea by : John Gallant
Download or read book Bannock Beans and Black Tea written by John Gallant and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stark, brutally honest memoir illustrated by one of the world's great cartoonists. This is a gripping and poignant memoir recounting one boy's experiences of deprivation and poverty growing up in a rural farming village during the Great Depression. The short stories are written by John Gallant and illustrated by his son Seth, better know to many as the New Yorker illustrator and award-winning D+Q cartoonist behind the books It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken and the sumptuous Vernacular Drawings. Written with a concise honesty and clarity, the stories reveal the sad reality of a boy growing up in brutal social and economic conditions.