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Timothy Decker

Auteur van Run Far, Run Fast

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Geboortedatum
1974-10-07
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
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graphic novelist

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Bit of a hotchpotch this - difficult to know what to make of it, on a few levels.

Firstly it reads as a children's book, but its the story of a young girl attempting to escape the plague. Not that you can't deal with dark, serious topics in children's books, but it felt jarring.

Secondly, it _looks_ like a comic, but the panel order is very uncoventional. Typically there will be writing & a related illustration on the left-hand side. Then on the right there will be many panels depicting what was described (perhaps filling in the details too), although not necessarily in a linear way (in places its more aspect-to-aspect, to use McCloudian terminology). From a comics structure point of view, this is an interesting approach. I suspect that Timothy Decker would not identify this as a work of comics (but may well be wrong), but I would say that it does have many of comics distinctive characteristics.

Thirdly, it kinda feels a bit short and, despite the serious subject, a little inconsequential. It feels like all the illustrations - lovely pencil drawings, very evocative in places, and the most successful thing here, to my eyes - took so much time that there was little left to develop the story into something satisfying.

A curiosity, then, but an interesting and beautiful one.



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thisisstephenbetts | 10 andere besprekingen | Nov 25, 2023 |
This book is set during the Plague that struck 14th century Europe. This book is illustrated in pen and ink, with handwritten font. I found this book very confusing, especially towards the end. The little girl left her home to escape the illness, everywhere she went she was turned away because the illness was being locked out. Eventually, the little girl went home having nowhere to go. Her family wasn’t there, she found her brother in a house that was holding the ill. She escaped with him to finally go home. I would use this book to maybe explain the hysteria that forms when a contagious illness that has no vaccine is going around. Even though different, it can help explain what is happening with the Corona Virus and how people are reacting.… (meer)
 
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krichard | 10 andere besprekingen | Mar 5, 2020 |
A plague has swept over the countryside, and this little girl has no choice but to run far and run fast. Each new town she approaches is locked to keep the plague out or to stop the spread. She is stranded and fearful of the plague until she meets a soilder in the woods that helps her. He teaches her that death is apart of life and nature.
This story was dark, and the illustrations paired with it created a dramatic and depressing tone as well. It was set up almost like a graphic novel with the many drawn pictures Decker displays on each page to depict the events. This book isn't my style, but I could see people who are interested in the medieval time period enjoying it.… (meer)
 
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cblanco | 10 andere besprekingen | Feb 19, 2020 |
I really liked The Letter Home by Timothy Decker. In the book, a father serving in World War I wrote home to his son to tell him everything he has been doing. In the book, the illustrations show what is actually happening, while the father writes his letter to make it seem fun for his son. I like how Decker showed how parents usually put their children's happiness before their own. I like that he wrote about doing activities that are fun for children, such as watching fireworks and playing hide and seek.
I think this book is beautifully written. It shows the battle that parents have to make every day, just to make sure their children are not scared or worried. The father in the book knew that he could not tell his young son about what he was actually doing there, but he wanted to ensure to his son that he would be home soon.
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ShannaYoung | 6 andere besprekingen | Aug 16, 2019 |

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26
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