by Anthony McCarten · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257237337
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«Superhero» is the novel by Anthony McCarten published by Diogenes Verlag AG in paperback (302 pages, in German).
Donald Delpe, fourteen years old and an aspiring comic-book artist, deals with a serious illness. Feeling he has little time, his big question is how love works. To endure, he invents MiracleMan, his own superhero, and the novel asks whether imagination and fiction are enough or whether he will need another kind of hero.
German translation of the English original «Death of a Superhero». Part of the Diogenes-Taschenbuch collection, number 23733.
A coming-of-age novel for young and adult readers, with a look at illness, identity and first love.
Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing big-budget biopics The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), The Two Popes (2019), and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022). McCarten has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including twice for Best Adapted Screenplay, for The Theory of Everything and The Two Popes.
