![]() ![]() Maybe six of one and half dozen of the other. In fact you would not so much want to be friends with Joyce and Harvey, they are just so awkward and difficult about everything, either that or life conspires to make everything messy and frustrating for them. This book is co-written by Harvey and his wife Joyce Brabner and it’s a pekaresque mingling of her stuff (student peace activism) and his stuff (cancer) and their stuff (moving house), all of which adds to the drama-trauma because none of it goes smoothly. So, the doctors cure Harvey but then they give him medicine which makes him really ill. It’s going to be really awful.Ĭancer plays a cruel game on Harvey – he ignores a lump in his groin for three years, finally gets it checked out, it’s malignant lymphoma, they remove it, he’s now clear! Great! But they have to now give him three to six months of heavy chemo followed by radiotherapy to make sure it doesn’t come back, and it’s this chemo that causes all Harvey’s frequent near death experiences, outbursts of horrifying shingles and constant refrains of lemme die, lemme die now, I can’t take it. ![]() So this graphic novel is not going to be Jonathan Livingston Pekar. ![]() A grumpy, cantankerous stick-in-the-mud hypochondriac who then gets cancer – well, why not. Even when he didn’t have non-Hodgkins lymphoma Harvey Pekar wasn’t Mr Positive and he had practically no use for raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens. ![]()
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