CONTRACT WITH GOD TRILOGY

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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), Will Eisner's 1978 A Contract with God was the first literary graphic novel: the prototype (along with Life Force and Dropsie Avenue) for such seminal works as Maus and Persepolis. A fictional illustration of the bittersweet tenement life of Eisner's Depression-era youth, this mesmerizing trilogy tells an epic story of life, death, and resurrection while exploring man's fractious relationship with an all-too-vengeful God. Eisner's most poignant and enduring legacy is assembled in one volume for the first time. Hardbound. "An inspiration to several generations of cartoonists." -Art

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