9781681374048-1681374048-Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh

ISBN-13: 9781681374048
ISBN-10: 1681374048
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Frank Santoro
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: New York Review Comics
Format: Hardcover 216 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781681374048
ISBN-10: 1681374048
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Frank Santoro
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: New York Review Comics
Format: Hardcover 216 pages

Summary

Pittsburgh (ISBN-13: 9781681374048 and ISBN-10: 1681374048), written by authors Frank Santoro, was published by New York Review Comics in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Pittsburgh (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.13.

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A moving graphic memoir about home, childhood, and family by the author of Storeyville and Pompeii.

Pittsburgh is the story of a family, and a city. Frank Santoro faces a straightforward yet heart-rending reality: His parents, once high-school sweethearts, now never speak to each other—despite working in the same building. Stuck in the middle, he tries to understand. The result is this book.

Using markers, pencils, scissors, and tape, with a variety of papers, drawing in vivid colors and exuberant lines, Santoro constructs a multi-generational retelling of their lives. Framed by his parents’ courtship and marriage, and set amid the vital but fading neighborhood streets, the pages of Pittsburgh are filled with details both quotidian and dramatic—from his childhood mishaps to his father’s trauma in Vietnam—interspersed throughout with the mute witness of the family dog, Pretzel.

Santoro, the acclaimed author of Storeyville and Pompeii, has created his masterpiece. Pittsburgh is an extraordinary reimagining of the comics form to depict the processes of memory, and a powerful, searching account of a family taking shape, falling apart, and struggling to reinvent itself, as the city around them does the same.
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