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<p><b>The epic autobiography of a manga master<br /><br /></b>Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections <i>The Push Man and Other Stories</i>, <i>Abandon the Old in Tokyo</i>, and <i>Good-Bye</i>—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today’s graphic novel movement. <i>A Drifting Life</i> is his monumental memoir eleven years in the making, beginning with his experiences as a child in Osaka, growing up as part of a country burdened by the shadows of World War II.<br /><br />Spanning fifteen years from August 1945 to June 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 i
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