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| 100 | _aEisner, Will | ||
| 245 | _aContract with God trilogy : life on dropsie avenue | ||
| 250 | _a1st Edition | ||
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_bW. W. Norton & Company _c2005 _aLondon |
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| 300 |
_axx, 498 p. _bill. _c26 cm. |
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| 365 |
_b35.00 _cUSD _d75.10 |
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| 490 | _aGraphic novels | ||
| 520 | _aWith graphic narrative that 'was closer to the writing of Bernard Malamud or Isaac Bashevis Singer than any comic art which had preceded it' (The Economist), A Contract with God, originally published in 1978, was the first graphic novel: the prototype - along with Life Force and Dropsie Avenue - for such seminal works as Maus and Persepolis. Set during the Great Depression, this literary trilogy, assembled in one volume for the first time, presents a treasure house of now near-mythic stories that fictionally illustrate the bittersweet tenement life of Eisner's youth. With nearly two dozen new illustrations and a revealing new foreword, this book ultimately tells the epic story of life, death, and resurrection while exploring man's fractious relationship with an all-too-vengeful God. This mesmerizing, fictional chronicle of the universal American immigrant experience is Eisner's most poignant and enduring legacy. | ||
| 650 | _aComic books | ||
| 650 | _aGraphic novels | ||
| 650 | _aFiction | ||
| 650 | _aImmigrants | ||
| 650 | _aTenement houses | ||
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