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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Destinazione, tempi e costiDa: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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'. Codice articolo 30124851
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Da: Carol's Cache, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Unpaginated. Approximately 350-400 pages. Graphic novel and so much fun to read. Shows some shelfwear to spine and corners. Pages clean and tight. 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. Codice articolo 008081
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Da: Bay State Book Company, North Smithfield, RI, U.S.A.
Condizione: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing. Codice articolo BSM.NLPG
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Da: Print Matters, London, Regno Unito
Hard Cover. Pantheon Graphic Library 2009. Book condition: F - Fine. Dust Jacket. Full Colour illustrations. Dust Jacket condition: F - Fine. Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagrely 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. 344 pages. Size: 8" x 11" (210mm x 270mm). ISBN: 0307377326. (3). Codice articolo DMAZZPOLYP
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Da: SGS Trading Inc, Franklin Lakes, NJ, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condizione: Good. Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Tracking. Codice articolo SKU0588492
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Da: SGS Trading Inc, Franklin Lakes, NJ, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condizione: Good. Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Tracking. Codice articolo SKU1693983
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Da: Mispah books, Redhill, SURRE, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Like New. book. Codice articolo ERICA78703073773266
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Da: Toscana Books, AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: new. Excellent Condition.Excels in customer satisfaction, prompt replies, and quality checks. Codice articolo Scanned0307377326
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Da: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
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. Codice articolo 1381320
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Da: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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. Codice articolo Graphic-Novels-100
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