{"product_id":"boat-life-vol-1-9781942801122","title":"Boat Life Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Floating World Comics\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Floating World Comics\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: East Asian Style - Manga - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerialized between 1996 and 2000, Boat Life stars novelist Tsuda Kenta, a lightly veiled stand-in for the artist, Tsuge Tadao, himself, as he pursues a life of reprieve and reverie on a small, makeshift house boat on a river outside of Tokyo. Based loosely on the artist's own daily life, this charming story follows the hapless protagonist on a series of magical absurdist quests, featuring a panoply of personable characters, including a drunkard fisherman, a pervy monk, a talking corpse, a senile hermit, and a half-supportive, half-doubtful wife and adult son. Most of the scenes take place on the Tonegawa River in Chiba, a favorite fishing spot of Tsuge's. Others occur at the artist's home or at Joker, a jeans and apparel shop the Tsuges opened in 1977. While fans of Trash Market and Slum Wolf will enjoy this late-career elaboration of après-guerre themes Tsuge has been exploring since his debut in the legendary alt-manga magazine Garo in the late '60s, fans of his brother Tsuge Yoshiharu's The Man Without Talent will appreciate the more relaxed and optimistic take on middle-aged reclusion and the grind of work and family.Show Additional Fields\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Floating World Comics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45030427590807,"sku":"9781942801122","price":1677.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781942801122.webp?v=1767896618","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/boat-life-vol-1-9781942801122","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}