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A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
UNITED KINGDOM · 2005

A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

Peter Greenaway
biographical reconstruction 20th century history fragmented narrative travel and displacement archival discovery
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Synopsis

A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. A Life in Suitcases condenses the six-hour trilogy into a single two-hour feature, and in doing so, accentuates the project as a fi

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