Collecting Sticks
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Observer Graphic Novel of the MonthCollecting Sticks is a graphic novel about a family glamping trip. (It’s like camping, but much more expensive.) Loosely based on actual events, but sometimes veering unexpectedly into fantasy, the story plays with the challenges nature presents to city folk as they forage for berries, get stuck up a tree, make perilous encounters with stinging wildlife, compete to build the best fire and discover the importance of finding good sticks. Also, it rains. It’s about the human desire to get back to nature. Or to return to childhood and hit things with sticks.Funny, moving, beautifully drawn, Collecting Sticks can stand beside Joff Winterhart’s classic graphic novel of family life, Days of the Bagnold Summer.

Additional information

Weight 0.441 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 15.5 × 22.5 cm
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Format

Hardback
Language

Pages

160
Publisher

Year Published

2017-4-13
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1910702730
About The Author

Joe Decie has been detailing family life in comic-strip form for several years, through vignettes that capture beauty in the everyday and playfully mix autobiography with the absurd.
Review Quote

This wonderfully well-observed graphic novel from cartoonist Decie is a must for anyone diving into the great outdoors this summer.
Other text

Tent and Primus stove fanatics may want to give it a miss; ditto enthusiastic Scout leaders, and those who even in middle age ache inside at the merest thought of Glastonbury. But if you’re still scarred by camping holidays you endured as a kid – I know I am – then this singular, funny book is for you.

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