The Man Who Grew Young

The Man Who Grew Young

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Adam Taylor lives what seems to him an ordinary life in an ordinary world, where the sun just happens to rise in the west and set in the east, and people begin their lives when they're taken from their graves and end them when they're united with their mothers. But unlike everyone else, Adam has trouble accepting this process. He doesn't seem to have a mother and hence can...more
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Published by Context Books (first published 2001)
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Noah
An interesting premise, but in the end I've heard the argument before and disagree with it. For a completely closed-system, naturalist point of view, I can think of few as respectable and respecting as Quinn's, but in the end it's not enough. The "mother" in the end (in other words, the end of his quest) is wholly unsatisfactory and, in my opinion, such a viewpoint explains nothing about human need, yearning and quest, let alone other experiences we humans face through our lives.
Firda Beka
The backward storyline got me disoriented for a bit when I had to take a break. Part of the story kind of tied in with Werner Herzog's latest documentary, "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" that I saw a couple of weeks before reading this. Of course it was a different take than what the scientists are saying about the cave drawings. I liked this graphic novel but the ending really could've been better.
Terrie
I was able to purchase one of the first printing of this with Quinn's signature. I love his work.
Jim
i saw the ending of this book early on, still a nice hour's read
Larah
The predecessor to Benjamin Button, and better!
Timothy Delaney
I bought the signed copy.
Hard cover comic book.
Rebekah Hopkinson
Best graphic novel
Elizabeth Rival
Dec 15, 2012 Elizabeth Rival marked it as to-read
L.Reese
Amy!
I really like the concept of this and the execution. I kind of wish the ending had gone a different route.
Rachel
kind of a children's book, with slightly cheesy art, but it's still Daniel Quinn.
Megan
The story is definitely interesting, but it's the illustrations that really make this book fantastic. Go, Tim!!!
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Daniel Quinn (born 1935 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a U.S. writer.
He studied at St. Louis University, the University of Vienna, and Loyola University of Chicago, receiving a bachelor's degree in English, cum laude, in 1957.
He is best known for his book Ishmael (1992), which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991.

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