With the economy of proverbs and the psychological insight of a novel, Toon Tellegen's acclaimed sequence Raptors depicts the dynamics of a family held hostage by the mood-swings and histrionics of a father, a figure both comic and terrifying, grotesque and pathetic. Tellegen's mercurial imagination
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- Book ID
- 124447711
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 153 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-3568
- DOI
- 10.2307/1308659
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