by Raymond Briggs · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224046626
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«Ethel & Ernest: A True Story» is the graphic biography by Raymond Briggs, published by Jonathan Cape in hardback (104 pages, in English).
Briggs narrates the lives of his parents, Ethel, a maid, and Ernest, a milkman, from their chance meeting to their old age. In everyday panels, the story follows their marriage and the raising of their only child as England experiences the Second World War, the creation of the welfare state and the arrival of television.
It was originally published in 1998. Ernest Redvers Briggs (1900-1971) and Ethel Bowyer (1895-1971), Raymond Briggs's parents, married in 1930.
For all audiences; will appeal to readers of graphic memoirs and to those who appreciate an intimate portrait of twentieth-century England.
Raymond Redvers Briggs was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.
