The Man Who Grew Young
by Daniel Quinn (Author), Tim Eldred (Illustrator)
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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 cannot return to her body in the accepted way.Tim Eldred's illustrations bring to life this masterful tale of a future world show more which chronicles Adam's search for his mother. The journey takes him to Alta, a seer who describes to her incredulous listeners an earlier world where people grew older rather than younger; to Egypt, where he's greeted as a god; and to increasingly distant places that the author reveals with haunting power. show lessTags
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This graphic novel is based on the theory of the Big Bang reversing into the Big Crunch. People are removed from the ground and then grow younger until finally united with their mothers. Except for Adam who appears to have no mother. He doesn’t grow younger and keeps going back in time looking to solve the mystery of his existence. The story works in a lot of creation stories including the biblical stories and evolutionary theory. It’s in the latter where Adam finally finds his mother in the trilobites of the sea. The story has a good concept but it’s not always executed well.
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Daniel Quinn was born in 1935 and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He graduated from Creighton Prep and attended St. Louis University, the University of Vienna and Loyola University of Chicago. Quinn worked in educational and consumer publishing, holding editorial positions with the American Peoples Encyclopedia, the Greater Cleveland Mathematics show more Program, the Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation, Fuller and Dees Publishing and the Society for Visual Education. He is best known for his award-winning novel Ishmael (1992), which is about a gorilla able to telepathically communicate, but he has written other novels as well as short fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2001
- Original language
- English
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