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A Contract With God (Paperback)

By: Will Eisner (Author)

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Will Eisner invented the term "graphic novel" to differentiate this serious work from the superhero exploits typically chronicled in comic books. As such, it served as a precursor to works in a similar vein by other author/artists, including Art Spiegelman's MAUS and Marjane Satrapi's PERSEPOLIS. Based on Eisner's childhood experiences, A CONTRACT WITH GOD collects four tales that illuminate the daily lives of the inhabitants of a Bronx tenement during the 1930s, illustrated by evocative, realistic sepia-toned art. The title story concerns a pious Jew who writes out a contract with God. When his adopted daughter Rachele dies suddenly, he considers the contract breached, repudiates his faith, and becomes a slumlord. The second concerns a street singer's brief chance at fame, the third is a glimpse at the desperately lonely and deeply misunderstood tenement super, and the fourth recounts various sexual dramas occurring during summer vacation in the Catskills. While the stories are somewhat grim, they are not entirely so, and there is definitely a strong sense of the poetic in the tragedies that he portrays.

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