Contract with God Trilogy
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Will Eisner (1917-2005) saw himself as ",a graphic witness
reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle
to prevail.", The publication of A Contract With God when Eisner
was sixty-one proved to be a watershed moment both for him and for
comic literature. It marked the birth of the modern graphic novel
and the beginning of an era when serious cartoonists could be
liberated from their stultifying comic-book format. More than a
quarter-century after the initial publication of A Contract With
God, and in the last few months of his life, Eisner chose to
combine the three fictional works he had set on Dropsie Avenue, the
mythical street of his youth in Depression-era New York City.As the
dramas unfold in A Contract With God, the first book in this new
trilogy, it is at 55 Dropsie Avenue where Frimme Hersh, the pious
Jew, first loses his beloved daughter, then breaks his contract
with his maker, and ends up as a slumlord, it is on Dropsie Avenue
where a street singer, befriended by an aging diva, is so beholden
to the bottle that he fails to grasp his chance for stardom, and it
is there that a scheming little girl named Rosie poisons a depraved
super's dog before doing in the super as well. In the second book,
A Life Force, declared by R. Crumb to be ",a masterpiece,", Eisner
re-creates himself in his protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose
existential search reflected Eisner's own lifelong
struggle.Chronicling not only the Crash of 1929 and the Great
Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of left-wing
politics, Eisner combined the miniaturist sensibility of Henry Roth
with the grand social themes of novelists such as Dos Passos and
Steinbeck. Finally, in Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood, Eisner
graphically traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over
four centuries, creating a sweeping panorama of the city and its
waves of new residents-the Dutch, English, Irish, Jews, African
Americans, and Puerto Ricans-whose faces changed yet whose lives
presented an unending ",story of life, death, and resurrection.",
The Contract With God Trilogy is a mesmerizing, fictional chronicle
of a universal American experience and Eisner'' most poignant and
enduring literary legacy.
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WW Norton & Co ,
Will Eisner
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Will Eisner
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