Kill my mother : a graphic novel
Feiffer, Jules2014
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As our story begins, we meet Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s. Annie dreams of offing her mother, Elsie, whom she blames for abandoning her for a job soon after her husband, a cop, is shot and killed. Now, employed by her husband's best friend - an over-the-hill and perpetually soused private eye - Elsie finds herself covering up his missteps as she is drawn into a case of a mysterious client, who leads her into a decade-long drama of deception and dual identities sprawling from the Depression era to World War II Hollywood and the jungles of the South Pacific. Along with three femme fatales, an obsessed daughter, and a loner heroine, this novel features a fighter turned tap dancer, a small-time thug who dreams of being a hit man, a name-dropping cab driver, a communist liquor store owner, and a hunky movie star with a mind-boggling secret.
Main title:
Kill my mother : a graphic novel / Jules Feiffer.
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Imprint:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014.
Collation:
160 pages : chiefly illustrations
ISBN:
9780871403148 (hbk)
Dewey class:
741.5
Language:
English
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BRN:
234918