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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1136959025 Title: George Sprott, 1894-1975 : a picture novella Author: Seth Publisher: [Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2021. ISBN/ISSN: 9781770464094 1770464093 OCLC:1136959025

  
  

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George Sprott, 1894-1975 : a picture novella

Author:	Seth
Publisher:	[Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2021.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Fiction : English : First paperback editionView all editions and formats
Summary:	"How to encapsulate a life, in all its messiness, epiphanies, misunderstandings, disappointments, and joys? With George Sprott 1894-1975, Seth offers one tragicomic answer. Page by page, we learn about George--outmoded television host, creature of habit, charming if pompous old man, selfish lover, man about to die--and though this is ultimately the story of one man's death, Seth leavens it with humor and restraint. The book's omniscient narrator offers a patchwork tale: a series of "interviews" with the people who cared about George, flashbacks, and personal reminiscences. The thwarted love of his life, Olive Mott, and the woman he marries, Helen. His trips to the Arctic and the exoticized portrait his documentaries painted of a Great White North. His habit of falling asleep on air. His humdrum demise. What emerges is a story about memory, loss, time, and the stories we tell (and retell) to get through the day. George's romanticizing and repeating of his adventures up North, "adventures" that are revealed to be entirely fictional, holds a mirror to the ways we each historicize our own lives."--  Read more...
Subjects	Memory -- Comic books, strips, etc. Nostalgia on television -- Comic books, strips, etc. Canada -- Comic books, strips, etc. View all subjects
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