Glen Baxter, His Life: The Years of Struggle

by Glen Baxter

Book Overview

A compelling and poignant tale of a young boy growing up in a terrifying landscape of deprivation, humiliation and alliteration somewhere in the industrial North of England. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394533119
• ISBN13: 9780394533117
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.

Customer Reviews

wonderfully weird humor

I'm not sure how firm a basis this book has in the actual reality of Glen Baxter's life, but it's fun and interesting to read. He does his usual combination of pictures and writing, but this time there's an actual story running through the entire book. He talks about his birth, school, neighbors, relatives, vacations, and more. A few of the pictures are in color, in the same style of coloring you can find in _The Further Blurtings of Baxter_. One of my biggest problems with this book, and the reason why I didn't give it a 5, was the way the text and images were handled. Often, the text pertaining to a particular picture would be found on one page and you'd have to turn the page to see the actual picture. This delay between reading the words and seeing the image took away some of the humor. It was also a bit confusing at first, since I kept thinking that the text on the right was referring to the image on the left. That seems logical, but that's not always how this book was set up.