Bibliograph

Kill my mother, a graphic novel, Jules Feiffer

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Kill my mother, a graphic novel, Jules Feiffer

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Kill my mother

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Responsibility statement

Jules Feiffer

Sub title

a graphic novel

Summary

When three daunting dolls intersect with one hapless heroine and a hard-boiled private eye, deception, betrayal, and murder stalk every mean street"As our story begins, we meet Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s. Annie dreams of offing her mother, Elsie, whom she blames for abandoning her for a job soon after her husband, a cop, is shot and killed. Now, employed by her husband's best friend--an over-the-hill and perpetually soused private eye--Elsie finds herself covering up his missteps as she is drawn into a case of a mysterious client, who leads her into a decade-long drama of deception and dual identities sprawling from the Depression era to World War II Hollywood and the jungles of the South Pacific. Along with three femme fatales, an obsessed daughter, and a loner heroine, Kill My Mother features a fighter turned tap dancer, a small-time thug who dreams of being a hit man, a name-dropping cab driver, a communist liquor store owner, and a hunky movie star with a mind-boggling secret. Culminating in a U.S.O. tour on a war-torn Pacific island, this disparate band of old enemies congregate to settle scores"--, Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

Part I. Bay City blues 1933 -- Part II. Hooray for Hollywood 1943

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