Ethel & Ernest - Rilegato

Briggs, Raymond

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ISBN 10: 0375407588 ISBN 13: 9780375407581

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Riassunto

Beautifully rendered full-color drawings and a candid, evocative text capture the entertaining and poignant story of the author's parents, from their first encounter in 1928 London, through their marriage and the rapidly shifting modern world, to their final days. 30,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Raymond Briggs was born in London in 1934. One of the most innovative and popular author-illustrators in the world, he has won numerous awards for his work. His children's books, including the classics The Snowman and Father Christmas, have sold millions of copies worldwide. He lives in England.

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nny, and utterly original, Ethel & Ernest is Raymond Briggs's loving depiction of his parents' lives from their chance first encounter in the 1920s until their deaths in the 1970s.

Ethel and Ernest were solid members of the English working class, part of the generation that lived through the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century. They met during the Depression--she working as a maid, he as a milkman--and we follow them as they court and marry, make a home, raise their son, and cope with the dark days of World War II. Briggs's portrayal of how his parents succeeded, or failed, in coming to terms with the events of their rapidly shifting world--the advent of radio, television, and telephones; the development of the atomic bomb; the moon landing; the social and political turmoil of the sixties--is irresistibly engaging, full of sympathy and affection, yet clear-eyed and unsentimental.

Briggs's illustrations are small masterpieces; coupled with the wond

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375407588
• ISBN 13: 9780375407581
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 103