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Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton

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Matt Phelan, graphic novelist extraordinaire, presents a rollicking tribute to vaudeville, small-the town dreams, and Buster Keaton as a boy.

In the summer of 1908, in Muskegon, Michigan, a visiting troupe of vaudeville performers is set probably the most exciting thing since baseball. They’re summering in nearby Bluffton, so Henry has a couple of months to ogle the elephant and the zebra, the tightrope walkers and — lo and behold — a slapstick actor his own age named Buster Keaton. The show folk say Buster is indestructible; his father throws him around as a part of the act and the target market roars, even as Buster never cracks a grin. Henry longs to learn how to take a fall like Buster, “the human mop,” but Buster just needs to play ball with Henry and his friends. With signature nostalgia, Scott O’Dell Award–winning graphic novelist Matt Phelan visualizes a bygone era with lustrous color, dynamic lines, and flawless dramatic pacing.

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