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Informationen zum Autor G. B. Trudeau has been drawing his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip for more than forty years. In addition to cartooning! Trudeau has worked in theater! film! and television. He also has been a contributing columnist for the New York Times op-ed page and later an essayist for Time magazine. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He lives in New York City with his wife! Jane Pauley. They have three grown children. Klappentext The initial stages of B.D.Us recovery from losing a leg in Iraq were dramatically portrayed in "The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time!" but his healing journey was far from over. As this powerful sequel shows! the "war within" can be a long and lonely struggle! hardly the life of a "glamorous amputee" imagined by his daughter's jealous classmate. Zusammenfassung Thousands of soldiers have suffered grievous wounds in Iraq, but only one of them is a Doonesbury character. This special collection picks up where THE LONG ROAD HOME left off, following BD through his recovery, while gaining insight into what it takes to reacclimatise to the outside world after such a life-altering injury. BD’s inspiring, insightful, and darkly humorous story confirms that it can take a village, or at least a ward, to raise a soldier when he’s gone down.
