Things To Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park by Aneurin (Nye) Wright (paperback)

A tour-de-force and eight years in the making, this is a powerful, superbly drawn and deeply moving portrait of a young man coming to terms with his dying father, and with his own life, as he takes care of the old man in his final months.

"A work of unflinching reality and subtle beauty... deserves a place next to the richest memoirs as well as the most vibrant fantasies." - Arts Journal

Paperback: 320 pages
Size: 200mm x 250mm

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When Nye’s father phones to wish him a happy birthday, and reveals he has been ‘certified for hospice’, Nye slumps down on the nearest doorstep in shock. Unemployment means that he is free to move in to the trailer park where his father lives, and assume the role of chief carer.

Their daily schedule of pill counting and medical checks unfolds into an extraordinary world where the protagonist is a minotaur, his father a rhinoceros, social workers are sea turtles and mobile homes move atop gigantic elephants.

"This is one of the most involved and affecting portraits of how terminal illness affects both the afflicted and the survivors that I have ever seen, and Wright’s naked emotional honesty makes it work. Marvellous, emotional... it succeeds because it is real." - Comics Waiting Room

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Myriad Editions (16 Feb. 2012)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-908434-09-8
Size: 200mm x 250mm

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