Ethel y Ernest (Spanish Edition)

Author:   Raymond Briggs
Publisher:   Blackie Books
ISBN:  

9788410323650


Pages:   120
Publication Date:   09 December 2025
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Ethel y Ernest (Spanish Edition)


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Un libro maravilloso sobre el amor y la búsqueda de la prosperidad; y el homenaje más bello, más conmovedor, de un hijo a sus padres. Puede que ningún autor haya sabido hablar de su vida como lo hizo Raymond Briggs. Y su vida, él lo sabía, era imposible de contar sin la de sus padres. Esta biografía emotiva, con toques de ingenuidad y candidez geniales, recorre la historia del matrimonio Briggs, desde que se saludan por primera vez a través de una ventana hasta su fallecimiento. Pero es también la historia de una generación, la que vivió́ la Segunda Guerra Mundial y temió el avance fascista; la que vio nacer el estado de bienestar y tuvo que inventarle un hueco al televisor en su sala de estar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Poignant, funny, and utterly original, Ethel & Ernest is Raymond Briggs's loving depiction of his parents' lives from their chance first encounter in the 1920s until their deaths in the 1970s. Ethel and Ernest were solid members of the English working class, part of the generation that lived through the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century. They met during the Depression--she working as a maid, he as a milkman--and we follow them as they court and marry, make a home, raise their son, and cope with the dark days of World War II. Briggs's portrayal of how his parents succeeded, or failed, in coming to terms with the events of their rapidly shifting world--the advent of radio, television, and telephones; the development of the atomic bomb; the moon landing; the social and political turmoil of the sixties--is irresistibly engaging, full of sympathy and affection, yet clear-eyed and unsentimental. Briggs's illustrations are small masterpieces; coupled with the wonderfully candid dialogue, they evoke the exhilaration and sorrow, excitement and bewilderment, of experiencing such enormous changes. As much a social history as a personal account, Ethel & Ernest is a moving tribute to ordinary people living in an extraordinary time.

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Author:   Raymond Briggs
Publisher:   Blackie Books
Imprint:   Blackie Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9788410323650


ISBN 10:   8410323656
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   09 December 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Language:   Spanish

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Raymond Briggs estudió en la Wimbledon School of Art y la Slade School of Art y, aunque comenzó trabajando en publicidad, pronto empezó a ganar notoriedad como ilustrador. Es el autor de los aclamados libros infantiles El muñeco de nieve y Papá Noel. Además de ilustrar libros para numerosos autores, su obra se ha traducido a varios idiomas y se ha adaptado a películas, obras de teatro y animación para televisión. Otros de sus libros son Fungus the Bogeyman, Ug, When the Wind Blows, Ethel y Ernest, una biografía de sus padres y su última obra, Time for Lights Out, reflexiones sobre la vida y una contemplación sobre la vejez contada a través de palabras e imágenes

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