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The contract with God trilogy : life on Dropsie Avenue / Will Eisner.
Author
Eisner, Will
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
New York : W.W. Norton, ©2006.
Description
xx, 498 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PN6727.E4 A6 2006
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Immigrants
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New York (State)
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New York
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Comic books, strips, etc
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Tenement houses
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New York (State)
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New York
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Comic books, strips, etc
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Medicine
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Comic books, strips, etc
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Graphic novels
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Cartoons (Humor)
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Getty AAT genre
cartoons (humorous images)
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Series
Eisner, Will. Will Eisner library
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Will Eisner library
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Eisner, Will.
Contract with God.
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Eisner, Will.
Life force.
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Eisner, Will.
Dropsie Avenue.
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Summary note
The legendary graphic novel and the sequels that launched an art form. 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 A 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 one dozen new illustrations and a revealing brand-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.
Contents
A contract with God
A life force
Dropsie Avenue.
Other title(s)
Life on Dropsie Avenue
ISBN
0393061051
9780393061055
039332804X
9780393328042
LCCN
2005053944
OCLC
61424936
International Article Number
9780393328042
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