another comic book

[Bekah]

Now that's a fine kettle!  I just finished 
Baudolino last month (having got it when first 
became available in the US!)

I'll get this one too, of course, but ... God knows when... (sigh)

Bekah
cr My Name is Red by Oham Pamuck (which I also got a long, long time ago!)



At 4:55 PM -0500 1/3/05, Richard Romeo wrote:
>God, if eco has written a novel about comicsŠ.when will it end
>
>Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in 
>Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can 
>remember the plot of every book he has ever 
>read, every line of poetry, but he no longer 
>knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife 
>or his daughters, and remembers nothing about 
>his parents or his childhood. In an effort to 
>retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family 
>home somewhere in the hills between Milan and 
>Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches 
>through boxes of old newspapers, comics, 
>records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. 
>And so Yambo relives the story of his 
>generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and 
>guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred 
>Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life 
>racing before his eyes takes the form of a 
>graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the 
>frames to capture one simple, innocent image: 
>that of his first love.
>
>
><http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151011400/qid=1104789565/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-4340572-8526558?v=glance&s=books>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151011400/qid=1104789565/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-4340572-8526558?v=glance&s=books
>
>Richard
>
> 
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