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The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts.
Talese/Doubleday
March 2010
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Featuring: Jules Feiffer
464 pages
ISBN: 0385531583
EAN: 9780385531580
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A gifted storyteller who has delighted readers and theater
audiences for decades, Jules Feiffer now turns his talents
to the tale of his own life.
Plagued by
learning problems, a domineering mother, and a debilitating
sense of fear, Feiffer embarked on his first cartoon
apprenticeship at the age of seventeen, emboldened only by a
passion for success and a fortitude for failure. He vividly
recalls those transformative years working under the
legendary Will Eisner, and later, after he was drafted into
the army, his transformation from “smart-ass kid into an
enraged satirist.” Backing into Forward also traces
Feiffer's love life, from a doomed hitchhiking trip to
reclaim his high-school sweetheart to losing his virginity
in Greenwich Village and his road to marriage and
fatherhood.
At the center of this journey is
Feiffer's prolific creativity. In dazzling detail, he
recounts the birth of his subversive graphic novella
Munro, his entrée into New York's literary salons in
the 1960s, collaborations with film greats Mike Nichols,
Robert Altman, and Jack Nicholson, and other major turning
points. Brimming with wry punch lines, slices of Americana,
and pithy social commentary, Backing into Forward
charts Feiffer's rise to fame from unlikely beginnings.
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