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Mother, come home

By:

Hornschemeier, Paul

Publication details: Seattle Fantagraphics Books 2009Description: unpaginated; ill.; BookFindISBN:

1560979739

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Summary: HardbackSummary: Mother, Come Home quietly studies the inner lives of recently widowed David and his 7-year-old son, Thomas; both are unable to deal with their grief directly. Thomas, protected by a lions mask that his mother gave him, constructs an identity for himself as the groundskeeper: ritual and routine, already important to children that age, become paramount to him. He struggles desperately to keep up appearances while his father, a professor of symbolic logic, becomes lost in abstractions. Father and son begin to retreat into their fantasies, but only one emerges.

List(s) this item appears in: Homerton: Graphic Medicine reading list

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves	WB 310 HOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		13593

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Mother, Come Home quietly studies the inner lives of recently widowed David and his 7-year-old son, Thomas; both are unable to deal with their grief directly. Thomas, protected by a lions mask that his mother gave him, constructs an identity for himself as the groundskeeper: ritual and routine, already important to children that age, become paramount to him. He struggles desperately to keep up appearances while his father, a professor of symbolic logic, becomes lost in abstractions. Father and son begin to retreat into their fantasies, but only one emerges.

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