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Will Eisner | 528 pages | 17 Dec 2005 | WW Norton & Co | 9780393061055 | English | New York, United States The Contract With God Trilogy

Blue, Buddy December 4, Four extraordinary autobiographical stories from a legend in American . The dialogue was so on point and the illustrations grasped the characters so well. These are The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue who are going through events and situations that are so real--poverty, immigration, racial tensions, religious freedoms Perhaps outdated. View Product. Other books in the series. 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. Four stand-alone stories make up the book: in "A Contract with God" a religious man gives up his faith after the death of his young adopted daughter; in "The Street Singer" a has-been diva tries to seduce a poor, young street singer, who tries to take advantage of her in turn; a The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue racist is led to suicide after false accusations of pedophilia in "The Super"; and "Cookalein" intertwines the stories of several The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue vacationing in the Catskill Mountains. Browse all BookRags Study Guides. The Contract With God Trilogy gave me the chance to see how America's great cities evolved in time, I bet this story is the same in every major city, how it was established, how neighborhoods evolved and how people Well, this was a page-turner alright. Eisner would likely want nothing less. Each book of the trilogy is set in one location, a street in . New Hardcover Quantity Available: 1. There are more copies of this book View all search results for this book. As the population changes from Dutchto English to Irish to Italian to Jewish to Puerto Rican, each new group must earn trust and respect and in turn try to deal with the slow collapse of what was comfortable as the next group arrives. Book one focuses on one pious Jewish emigrant Frimme Hersh, who has just lost his daughter. However, I do agree that all the women in this story all seemed to have the same generic personality. A lot of the story is focused on the great depression era and before. About the Author : Born in , — was the author of the legendary comic strip The Spirit, as well as fifteen graphic novels and three influential instructional textbooks. Download as PDF Printable version. A Contract with God cemented Eisner's reputation as an elder statesman of comics, and he continued to produce graphic novels and theoretical works on comics until his death in This was followed by almost 20 additional graphic novels over the following 25 years. By this he means, if I do good things will God see to it that good things happen to me. Norton, W. Eisner wrote that he based the superintendent on the "mysterious but threatening custodian" [20] of his boyhood tenement. When pogroms followed in the wake of Tzar Alexander II's assassination, his local community, fearing that they would not survive another attack, gathered their money to pay for Frimme's passage to the United States. The book's short story cycle revolves around poor Jewish characters who live in a tenement in New York City. Members save with free shipping everyday! He touched upon universal truths, a The Contract With God is arguably the first example of The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue true '' as it was Will Eisner who first coined the phrase. And now I've read it. As the dramas unfold in A Contract With Godthe 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. The Dropsie Ave Trilogy is beautiful. It helped me get in touch with history and human condition on a whole different level. Date This week Last week Past month 2 months 3 months 6 months 1 year 2 years Pre Pre Pre Pre Pre s s s s s s Search Advanced. Hoffman, Eric I did find the earlier sections stronger in their storytelling than the final ones. In a career that spanned nearly eight decades -- from the dawn of the to the advent of digital comics - Will Eisner was truly the 'Father of the Graphic Novel' and the 'Orson Welles of Comics. Published December 17th by W. Finally, in Dropsie Avenue: The NeighborhoodEisner 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. Enlarge cover. Eisner proves why he has such a legacy in the medium. Eisner includes a preface where he explains his purpose in writing each story in Part I. June 6, The post office and other shippers are overwhelmed and some shipments may experience significant delays. Error rating book. All rights reserved. However, it might be due to the fact that I read the book in a relatively short time. The Contract With God is a series of stories about tenement living in the 30s. Finally, in Dropsie Avenue: The The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie AvenueEisner 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. M Press. Your ad could be here, right now. A boy, Shloime, finds Hersh's old contract, and signs his The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue name to it. He illicitly uses a synagogue's bonds that were entrusted to The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue to buy the tenement building in which he had lived when poor. We see the land change, moving from farms to tenements and factories. Overall a very good read and highly recommendable for fans of graphic novels. For example, there is the carpenter Jacob who assists his neighbor with building a room for the rabbi's mentally imbalanced wife; and Jacob begins a lumber business with fellow carpenter Angelo, who becomes involved with the mob. Life is hard and goes awry, and the story is grim and tragic.