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Kill my mother : a graphic novel / Jules Feiffer.

by Feiffer, Jules.

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Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2014]

Private investigators -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Noir comic books, strips, etc

9780871403148 (hc.)

0871403145 (hc.)

148 p. : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.

"Kill My Mother is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of Feiffer's youth. Channeling Eisner's The Spirit, along with the likes of Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder, and spiced with the deft humor for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective. 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."--From publisher.

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