{"product_id":"kill-my-mother-by-jules-feiffer-9781631491061","title":"Kill My Mother","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America, Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel. \u003cem\u003eKill My Mother\u003c\/em\u003e is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of his youth. Channeling Eisner's \u003cem\u003eThe Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e, along with the likes of Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder, and spiced with the deft humour for which Feiffer is renowned, \u003cem\u003eKill My Mother\u003c\/em\u003e centres on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs our story begins, we meet Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s. Annie dreams of offing her mother, Elsie, whom she blames for abandoning her for a job soon after her husband, a cop, is shot and killed. Now, employed by her husband's best friend—an over-the-hill and perpetually soused private eye—Elsie finds herself covering up his missteps as she is drawn into a case of a mysterious client, who leads her into a decade-long drama of deception and dual identities sprawling from the Depression era to World War II Hollywood and the jungles of the South Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong with three femme fatales, an obsessed daughter, and a loner heroine, \u003cem\u003eKill My Mother\u003c\/em\u003e features a fighter turned tap dancer, a small-time thug who dreams of being a hit man, a name-dropping cab driver, a communist liquor store owner, and a hunky movie star with a mind-boggling secret. Culminating in a U.S.O. tour on a war-torn Pacific island, this disparate band of old enemies congregate to settle scores.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a drawing style derived from \u003cem\u003eSteve Canyon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e, Feiffer combines his long-honed skills as cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter to draw us into this seductively menacing world where streets are black with soot and rain, and base motives and betrayal are served on the rocks in bars unsafe to enter. Bluesy, fast-moving, and funny, \u003cem\u003eKill My Mother\u003c\/em\u003e is a trip to Hammett-Chandler-Cain Land: a noir graphic novel like the movies they don't make anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463394869484,"sku":"9781631491061","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781631491061-kill-my-mother.jpg?v=1775032436","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/kill-my-mother-by-jules-feiffer-9781631491061","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}