| 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, is often taken to be 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 and this fine edition is an extremely affordable way to find out just why so many of us still bow down to Eisner's genius.
"An inspiration to several generations of cartoonists."- Art Spiegelman, author of Maus
WW Norton, hardback, 544 pages, published December 2005
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Writer: Will Eisner | Artist: Will Eisner | Publisher: WW Norton
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