{"product_id":"boat-life-volume-2","title":"Boat Life Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoat Life returns in Volume 2, with novelist Tsuda Kenta continuing to meander between home life, the family jeans shop, and days of solitude on the river.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong this graphic novel's colorful cast of friends, we meet a former manga artist who dives for curiously-shaped stones and sells them from a riverside hut, and an eager producer intent on a film adaptation of one of Tsudas novels. Unfortunately, Tsudas health is deteriorating. He learns from the doctor that his liver was damaged by working at a blood bank when he was young. But Kenta continues his dream boat life, while obsessed by an enormous fish. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDont miss the raucous night of Tsuda and his buddies boozing at a local temple. You'll be hard-pressed to find a more honest account in comics of how Japanese felt about life during and after World War II. While fans of Trash Market and Slum Wolf will enjoy this late-career elaboration of aprs-guerre themes Tsuge has been exploring since his debut in the legendary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e alt-manga magazine Garo in the late 1960s, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Artist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tadao Tsuge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslator:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ryan Holmberg \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Floating World Comics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296pp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6 x 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e softcover, b\/w\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eJuly 29, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1963314120\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Floating World Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49080240603392,"sku":"9781963314120","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/3902\/files\/boatlife2.jpg?v=1785115758","url":"https:\/\/atomicbooks.com\/products\/boat-life-volume-2","provider":"Atomic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}