Maus Volume I Book Art Spiegelman A Survivor's Tale Graphic Novel BRAND NEW

Description: Maus A SURVIVOR'S TALE By Art Spiegelman, BRAND NEW UNUSED Softcover book. This was purchased brand new from my local bookshop, and kept in an archival box, excellent condition. There is minor shelf wear at fold of cover flaps , which was present when purchased new, from my local bookstore, when the book was originally published. - see photos. I purchased two copies originally, of volume one and volume two.....one to read, and one to keep in my book collection. Excellent Book, makes a terrific gift! Winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize Maus is the story of Valdek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. It is, as the New York Times Book Review has commented, "a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event." Moving back and forth from Poland to Rego Park, New York, Maus tells two powerful stories: The first is Spiegelman's father's account of how he and his wife survived Hitler's Europe, a harrowing tale filled with countless brushes with death, improbable escapes, and the terror of confinement and betrayal. The second is the author's tortured relationship with his aging father as they try to lead a normal life of minor arguments and passing visits against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At all levels, this is the ultimate survivor's tale - and that, too, of the children who somehow survive even the survivors. Part I of Maus takes Spiegelman's parents to the gates of Auschwitz and him to the edge of despair. Put aside all your preconceptions. These cats and mice are not Tom and Jerry, but something quite different. This is a new kind of literature. Our books are not returnable

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Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

End Time: 2025-02-03T18:47:09.000Z

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