The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.
Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about?
As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.
In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.
Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.
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David Mazzucchelli has been making comics his whole life. Known chiefly for his collaborations - with Frank Miller on seminal Batman and Daredevil stories, and with Paul Karasik on an adaptation of Paul Auster's novel, City of Glass - he began publishing his own stories in 1991 in his anthology magazine, Rubber Blanket. Since then his short comics have been published in books and magazines around the world. Asterios Polyp is his first graphic novel, and has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and been listed as a New York Times notable book.
The triumphant return of one of comics' greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man's search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.
Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this "escape” really about?
As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he's gotten to where he is. And isn't. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she's gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.
In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli's extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.
Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli's masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.
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Destinations, frais et délaisVendeur : THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australie
Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 26.0 x 20.0cms c 300pp hardback ''This book is a satirical comedy of remarriage a treatise on aesthetics and design and ontology a late-life Kunsterlerroman a novel of deas with two capital letters and just about the most schematic work of fiction this side of that other big book that constantly alludes to the Odyssey''. N° de réf. du vendeur 30124851
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Vendeur : BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Hardcover. Unpaginated. 4to. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 0100771
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Vendeur : Books Puddle, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
Etat : New. pp. 344 1st Edition. N° de réf. du vendeur 26702694
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Vendeur : Majestic Books, Hounslow, Royaume-Uni
Etat : New. pp. 344 Illus. (Col.). N° de réf. du vendeur 8193849
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Vendeur : bainebridge booksellers, Bronx, NY, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1753372994158
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Vendeur : Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Corners of boards bumped. Otherwise, clean and solid. ; Pantheon Graphic Library; Color Illustrations; 4to; 344 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 333732
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Vendeur : Mispah books, Redhill, SURRE, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Like New. Like New. book. N° de réf. du vendeur ERICA78703073773266
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Vendeur : Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Large Octavo, unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus three-quarter dust jacket. Spine white and yellow with light blue and black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$29.95." Light scuffing to dust jacket. Moderate rubbing to head and tail of spine, edge, and corners of boards. Textblock clean. Shelved Front Table. 1381320. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. N° de réf. du vendeur 1381320
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Vendeur : Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Pantheon, 2009. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Near Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy, some very slight spine slant and very slight wear to delicate corners. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($29.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Large hardcover half-bound in what looks like a dense pressed cardboard with individual blind-stamped impressions of main character to each panel. Colored endpapers decorated with sketches of flowers and weeds. The wraparound pictorial dust jacket-band is sized to about 4/5ths of the book's height. Beautifully illustrated graphic novel of painterly images and muted colors. Asterios Polyp was named a New York Times Notable Book for that year, and won the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for graphic novels. N° de réf. du vendeur Graphic-Novels-100
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Vendeur : Bibliobeast, Novato, CA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : As New. First Edition. Nearly fine, new, clean, crisp and unread scarce stated first edition with the full number line including the 1. This striking, large and heavy hardcover is half-bound in what looks like a dense pressed cardboard with individual blindstamped impressions of Asterios to each panel; dressed in a jacket and smoking to the front and in shirtsleeves without a cigarette to the rear panel. The other half-panel is a deep purple with blue and white titles, the colored endpapers decorated with sketches of flowers.and some weeds. The wraparound pictorial dust jacket-band is sized to about 4/5ths of the book's height. This beautifully illustrated graphic novel of painterly images and muted colors even distinguishs each character's dialog in thought balloons with appropriately unique fonts. Asterios Polyp is a successfully ambitious novel, elegant and epic. David Mazzucchelli is an acclaimed comics artist/writer and his peers and other readers waited many years for this stunning tour-de-force. N° de réf. du vendeur 3260
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