| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780307377326 | | Publisher: Pantheon Books | | Publish Date: 7/7/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 208120169 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 7799 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 10.75H x 8L x 1.25T | | Pages: 344 |
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| | | The triumphant return of one of comics'' greatest talents. Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when he moves to a small town in America''s heartland after his New York City apartment goes up in flames.
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Asterios Polyp is an egotistic, accolade-laden architect who can not claim to have actually built a single building. So when his apartment in New York gets struck by lighting, does he rebuild? No, in a crisis of spiritual proportions, he runs off to a small town and tries to pull things back together. In his first graphic novel, well-respected comics artist David Mazzucchelli unfolds Asterios's story in an elegantly circuitous fashion. As befits someone with Mazzucchelli's mastery of the comics form, he makes the most of the visual potential in terms of drawing style, paneling, and linear structure. Mazzucchelli tells this tale of a complex man with abounding humanity, insight, and imagination. ASTERIOS POLYP is a beautiful accomplishment! Selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the 100 Best Books of 2009.
| Praise| "For decades, Mazzucchelli has been a master without a masterpiece. No he has one. His long-awaited graphic novel is a huge, knotty marvel, the comics equivalent of a Pynchon or Gaddis novel...." (starred review) 02/09/2009 "[A]n ambitious tale....[a] meticulously constructed work...." (starred review) - Gordon Flagg 03/15/2009 "Even by the standards of the graphic novel, this cosmic epic pushes the creative envelope....A visual and even philosophical stunner." (starred review) 04/15/2009 "Enter ASTERIOS POLYP: a big, proud, ambitious chunk of a graphic novel, with modernism on its mind and a perfectly geometrical chip on its shoulder....The book is a satirical comedy of remarriage, a treatise on aesthetics and design and ontology, a late-life Künstleroman, a Novel of Ideas 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." - Douglas Wolk 07/26/2009 "ASTERIOS POLYP reads like an intricately designed and heartfelt work of metafiction juggling design theory, philosophy and sly nods to other cartoonists to create a dryly funny masterpiece." - Evan Narcisse 07/30/2009 |
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