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"It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." Time


Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Métis leader. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, who some regard a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.

Louis Riel - a Comic-Strip Biography

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      Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
      Publication Date: 08/11/2006
      ISBN13: 9781894937894, 978-1894937894
      ISBN10: 1894937899

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      "It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." Time


      Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Métis leader. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, who some regard a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.

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