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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), 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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Graphic novels

• Full title: Contract with God Trilogy
• Author: Will Eisner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 528
• EAN: 9780393061055
• ISBN: 0393061051
• ID: 04067246
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 1120 g
• Dimensions: 262 × 186 × 35 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. December 2005

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