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Ethel & Ernest: A True Story

Ethel & Ernest: A True Story

by RaymondBriggs (Author)

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    Hardcover 1999

    $15.56
Synopsis

Utterly original, deeply moving and very funny, ETHEL & ERNEST is the story of Raymond Brigg's parents from their first, chance encounter to their deaths, told in Brigg's unique strip-cartoon format. Winner of the British Book Award for the Illustrated Book of the Year and acclaimed by the critics, ETHEL & ERNEST was a huge bestseller on first publication.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 103
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published: 07 Oct 1999
ISBN 10: 0224060392
ISBN 13: 9780224060394

Media Reviews
A best seller in Britain, this winsome little book is one family's twentieth century, told as a comic strip that fast-forwards through the decades. Briggs's artful rendering of his parents' striving captures the English working class, and as the tale progresses, you find yourself slowly sucked into their daily patter, amused by their cooing voices, impressed by their bravery. At the end, you're hardly prepared for the emotional wallop. -- Time In the details of Briggs's sparkling cartoons, the characters become richly specific and endearing . . . both pathetic and heroic in the face of overwhelmingevents. [They are] what make you read through Ethel & Ernest over again. --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Ethel & Ernest works brilliantly and artfully as an archetype. It is the author's willingness to frame his love and anguish so piercingly that makes it such a singular piece of work. We should be grateful that Briggs is so brilliantly equipped to remind us of what we u sed to be, and why. --Nick Hornby, New York Times Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author Bio
Raymond Briggs was born in Wimbledon Park, South London in 1934. Developing an early interest in illustration, he attended the Wimbledon School of Art at the age of fifteen. After completing a typography course at the Central School of Art, he went on to study at the Slade School of Fine Art. A passionate proponent of the art of the strip cartoon, Briggs has created many of his best-known books in this format. His is a formidable canon of work, beginning in the late 1950s. Several of his books have been made into highly acclaimed animated films. In addition to the Kate Greenaway Medal (for the Mother Goose Treasury and Father Christmas), Briggs has also received the Kurt Maschler Award and the Children's Book of the Year Award (for The Man), the British Book Award's Best Illustrated Book of the Year (for Ethel and Ernest) and the Smarties Silver Prize (for Ug). He lives in Sussex.