The Tale of One Bad Rat

Bryan Talbot

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Published by Jonathan Cape, part of Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

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EAN: 9780224084703
Published: 7 Aug 2008

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Synopsis

Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album Reprint, The Tale of One Bad Rat is the story of a young girl, Helen Potter, who runs away from home to escape an uncaring mother and a sexually abusive father. Eventually she finds her way to the Lake District, drawn there by her love of the work of Beatrix Potter, and in that beautiful landscape she at last finds peace.

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What the critics say

'It would be easy to simply categorise The Tale of One Bad Rat as a fine fiction about overcoming the effects of abuse. And it is that, but it is more than that: it's a lovingly crafted story about, in the end, the meaning and value of fiction and art, about what we take from the past, and what we bring to the future. With it, Bryan Talbot moves into the front rank of writer/artists.'
- Neil Gaiman

An ingenious, intertextual narrative that interweaves the charming, whimsical and, above all, the English vision of Beatrix Potter with a vision of England as it has become; the soft juxtaposed with the savage; Peter Rabbit lost in Cardboard City. Thoroughly excellent.
- Alan Moore

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About the Author

Bryan Talbot has been writing and drawing comics for twenty-nine years. His science fiction epic The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, begun in 1978, was the first British graphic novel. He followed it with Heart of Empire, The Tale of One Bad Rat and, in 2007, by Alice in Sunderland.

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