A Drifting Life (GN)

Release date: 2009-04-14
Suggested retail price: $34.95
Age rating: 16 - 18 Years

SKU: DNQDL-01
ISBN-10: 1897299745 1897299745
ISBN-13: 9781897299746 9781897299746

Description:
Spanning fifteen years from August of 1945 to June of 1960, Tatsumi's stand-in protagonist, Hiroshi, faces his father's financial burdens and his parents' failing marriage, his jealous brother's deteriorating health, and the innumerable pitfalls that await him in the competitive manga market of mid-twentieth-century Japan. He dreams of following in the considerable footsteps of his idol, manga artist Osamu Tezuka - with whom Tatsumi eventually became peers and, at times, stylistic rivals.

Story and art by Yoshihiro Tatsumi.

(added on 2011-09-06, modified on 2011-09-06)

• Reviewed by Casey Brienza (July 4, 2009)

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