Overview
With 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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780393061055
- ISBN-10: 0393061051
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: December 2005
- Dimensions: 10.24 x 7.28 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.73 pounds
- Page Count: 528
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