Bibliograph

Soldier's heart, the campaign to understand my WWII veteran father : a daughter's memoir, by Carol Tyler

Type

Label

Soldier's heart, the campaign to understand my WWII veteran father : a daughter's memoir, by Carol Tyler

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Soldier's heart

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

933300137

Responsibility statement

by Carol Tyler

Sub title

the campaign to understand my WWII veteran father : a daughter's memoir

Summary

The author chronicles her fraught relationship with her father, Charles, a WWII veteran, and how the war affected their lives through both childhood and adulthood. Soldier's heart is also a tribute to servicemen and women, dramatizing the trauma of the war on the Greatest Generation and those who followed. Tyler's ink and watercolor narrative is in turns sprawling and gimlet-eyed: compassionate and enraged. Her father's memories are woven into her own, which span her Catholic, Midwestern childhood; her troubled marriage; her daughter's struggles; and her efforts to care for her aging parents. Even though Tyler's work has an accessible, homemade feel (the organizing metaphor of the book is a photo album with snapshots of Tyler family life)., Publisher,

Target audience

adult

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