![]() ![]() This is a very touching, funny, honest, personal story about the events that lead a boy to discover an ambition to be an artist and writer, in spite of getting no encouragement from anybody except an eccentric old lady who almost never leaves his grandmother's boarding-house. The Gawgon, in return, calls him The Boy, with two capital initials, and they soon develop a surprisingly deep friendship that is put only slightly out of order by The Gawgon's death. ![]() The family doctor advises his parents not to send him back to school for a while, so he takes free tutoring from the terrible Aunt Annie, actually a distant cousin of his grandmother, whom he privately calls "The Gawgon" (based on another aunt's mispronunciation of "Gorgon"). As David approaches sixth grade, he nearly dies of an illness. This book, which may also be known under the title Fantastical Adventures of the Invisible Boy, is a thinly veiled portrait of the artist as a very young man, as he grew up in Philadelphia, USA during the Great Depression. ![]()
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