A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle

A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle

Meditations on fatherhood from the author of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City

With A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting, the trademark dry humor that pervades Guy Delisle's landmark and praised graphic travelogues takes center stage. Quick, light vignettes play on the worries and cares any young parent might have, and offer wry solutions to the petty frustrations of being a dad who works from home.
Readers familiar with Delisle's stranger-in-a-strange-land technique for storytelling (employed in Jerusalem, Pyongyang, Burma, and Shenzhen) will recognize the titular parent in this book; Delisle's travelogues were simultaneously portraits of complex places and times, and portraits of a stay-at-home dad's ever-changing relationship with his children while his wife is out working for Doctors Without Borders. The relationship between young child and all-too-irony-aware parent is beautifully done here, and Delisle's loose flowing style has been set free, creating a wonderful sense of motion throughout. A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting is an intimate, offbeat look at the joys of parenting.

Guy Delisle was born in Quebec City, Canada. His bestselling and acclaimed travelogues (Pyongyang, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, Burma Chronicles, and Shenzhen) are defining works of graphic nonfiction, and in 2012, Delisle was awarded the top prize in European cartooning when the French edition of Jerusalem was named Best Album at the Angoulü¾˜–”¼me International Comics Festival. He lives in France with his wife and children.

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ISBN 13	9781770461178
ISBN 10	1770461175
Title	A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting
Author	Guy Delisle
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Drawn and Quarterly
Year published	2013-07-30
Number of pages	192
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